GOES-17 views the active tropics
* GOES-17 images shown here are preliminary and non-operational *
GOES-17 Full Disk natural color Red-Green-Blue (RGB) images (above; courtesy of Dave Stettner, CIMSS) revealed the very active tropics across the East Pacific and North Atlantic basins on 10 September 2018 — from left to right, Hurricane Olivia and Tropical Storm Paul in the Pacific Ocean, Invest 95L in the Caribbean Sea, and in the Atlantic Ocean Hurricane Florence, Hurricane Isaac and Hurricane Helene.