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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
Tropical
Storm Frances
Frances moving up through 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 red circle marking
the location of Radford University.
Frances has just crashed into a cold front that came from the
west. |
Frances and the cold front are fighting it out, with the
hoped-for result that Frances will continue to dissipate. |