Irma reached hurricane strength when it was still located over the eastern atlantic about 400 n mi west of the cabo verde islands.
Cyclone irma vue satellite.
Later on 31 august irma turned west northwestward as the ridge to the north of the cyclone weakened a little.
Above image is an example see my future radar site for a full set of images.
Defoliation was so extreme that topography previously hidden by a vibrant tree canopy became exposed in detail.
Swipe between a satellite image from noaa s remote sensing division of el yunque from before hurricanes maria and irma and a satellite image from nasa earth observatory from after the hurricanes on october 12th 2017.
This image shows a rainfall analysis that was derived from gpm s microwave imager gmi and dual frequency precipitation radar dpr data.
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Meanwhile irma continued to rapidly strengthen and it reached major hurricane status 100.
Edt 1145 utc to sept.
The gpm core observatory satellite had an exceptional view of hurricane irma s eye when it flew above on september 5 2017 at 12 52 pm ast 1652 utc.
State of florida and the bahamas west of haiti and north of both jamaica and the cayman islands the country has experienced the effects of at least 54 atlantic hurricanes or storms that were once tropical or subtropical cyclones including 37 since 2000 the storms collectively killed 5 613 people most.
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