State of the Sea at the Start of Hurricane Season - related image preview

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State of the Sea at the Start of Hurricane Season

Tropical waters are warm, as usual, but not unusually so.


NASA Earth Observatory image by Jesse Allen, using WindSat and MODIS data from Chelle Gentemann and Frank Wentz, Remote Sensing Systems. Caption by Michael Carlowicz.

Published June 1, 2012
Data acquired May 30, 2012

Source:
Coriolis > WindSat