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Alex is the earliest hurricane in the North Atlantic since 1938, and one of the farthest northeast on record.


NASA image (top) by Jeff Schmaltz, LANCE/EOSDIS Rapid Response. NASA Earth Observatory map (bottom) by Joshua Stevens, using data from NOAA and Unisys Weather. Caption by Mike Carlowicz.

Published January 15, 2016
Data acquired January 14, 2016

Source:
Terra > MODIS