Satellite Image of the Day: September 13, 2005
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NOAA's Hydrometeorologial Prediction Center (HPC) "Daily National Forecast" image shows a daily national weather prediction

Satellites: NOAA-15 and NOAA-17, part of NOAA's 850km-high (530 mile-high) Polar Orbiting satellites

 Tropical Storm Ophelia - For The Moment
 The extremely high black clouds are -50 Centigrade.  At this time Ophelia is a tropical storm because there is no well defined eye.
A hurricane's eye would show an unbroken wall of clouds in the center.
The green center is the Atlantic Ocean.  Ophelia is localized - she is not bringing moisture to the Western parts of the Mid-Atlantic states.

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