Satellite Image of the Day: May 8, 2007
(click here for previous images of the day from RUSMART)

NOAA's Hydrometeorologial Prediction Center (HPC) "Daily National Forecast" image shows a daily national weather prediction

NOAA's National Hurricane Center

Satellites: NOAA-15, NOAA 16, NOAA 17 and NOAA-18, part of NOAA's 850km-high (530 mile-high) Polar Orbiting satellites

If this were later in the year...

...then this would have been an ominous sight to see.
The image to the left (May 7) would have shown a much stronger storm that could easily have been a hurricane,
with the image to the right (May 8) then showing the breakup of that storm.
Hopefully more will break up offshore and this one has rather than over land.

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