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Tuesday 30 October 2012

STUNNING NASA VIDEO OF THE BIRTH OF A MONSTROUS HURRICANE


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By now we should already have heard about Hurricane Sandy (dubbed Frankenstorm) which pounded the east coast of the US yesterday. Here are two stunning videos - one showing the birth of the hurricane, the other, its menacing size. As it turned out, Hurricane Sandy was more monstrous than expected (see Related Articles at the end).

The Birth of Hurricane Sandy
By Megan Garber,
The Atlantic, 28 October 2012.

Hurricane Sandy may be shaping up to be the worst storm in recent history. But it began life like all storms do: as a series of winds, breezing their way across Earth's surface.


The video above - a full disk animation from NASA's GOES-EAST satellite - shows the birth of Sandy starting on October 18, 2012. Seen from space, the storm's development is (relatively) subtle: It begins over Central America and then winds through the Caribbean and the east coast of the United States - gathering size (and, less obviously here, force) as it goes. The animation ends, rather ominously, at 4:45pm EDT today [28 October].

If you want to see what the storm looks like now, take a look at the video below from the NASA Earth Observatory. It's stunning.



[Source: The Atlantic. Edited. Top image added.]

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