Satellite Image of the Day
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Satellite: NOAA-15
August 4, 2004; flyover beginning 10:47am EDT
These images show Hurricane Alex this morning taken from the vantage point of NOAA's 850km-high (530 mile-high) Polar Orbiting satellites (NOAA-15here)

Hurricane Alex has turned northeastward, heading out to sea.
Click on the image below for a higher-resolution (>100k) image.

Straight down the eye of Hurricane Alex. The central calm region in the eye would be a nice, tropical day at sea...if not for the dangerous winds surrounding the location of the eye!
Click on the image below for a thermal image (67k) that shows the "balmy" area of the eye being surrounded by a high, cold, circular cloud wall.
Click here for a temperature scale.