Satellites: NOAA-15 and NOAA-17, part of NOAA's 850km-high (530 mile-high) Polar Orbiting satellites
At the moment, Ernesto is a tropical storm. You can see this
by the unconsolidated (open circle) at the center of Ernesto.
If, however, Ernesto does manage to draw power (heat) from the warm waters off
of the mid-Atlantic coast, then he might re-energize and turn into a hurricane.
The image below is a false color RGB (red, green, blue) image which brings out
the different cloud layers in the storm. The highest clouds are the brightest,
and the lower clouds are a yellowish color.
Stay tuned.
Click on the image below for a larger (268k) image.