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Archive: Mon Aug 2011

Hurricane Irene

On 22 August 2011 Tropical Storm Irene intensified to become the first Atlantic basin hurricane of the 2011 season. McIDAS images of GOES-13 0.63 µm visible channel data (above; click image to play animation) showed that while no eye was yet apparent, a number of discrete convective bursts could be seen during... Read More