Satellite Image of the Day: September 7, 2004
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Satellite: NOAA-15 and NOAA-17, one of NOAA's 850km-high (530 mile-high) Polar Orbiting satellites.
Flyover beginning 7:51am EDT
 Two images of Tropical Storm Frances
Frances moving up into the southeastern U.S.
For more information on factors that influence the paths that hurricanes take, see Kevin Myatt's Weather Journal on the Roanoke Times website.
You can see the evolution of the path of Frances by checking out the previous Satellite Image of the Day pages on this site.
Click on the images below for a higher-resolution (>100k) version.
In each of these images, you'll find the small yellow circle marking the location of Radford University.

Frances is just about to meet the well-delineated cold front coming from the west.
Flyover beginning 8:22am EDT

Frances has just crashed into the cold front that came from the west.
Over the next day, this front should push Frances back out to sea, hopefully leaving some dry weather in its wake.
Flyover beginning 12:53pm EDT