On Sept. four, 2019, a free chain of tropical cyclones lined up throughout the Western Hemisphere.
On the time of this picture (1:10 p.m. EDT) Hurricane Juliette within the East Pacific and Hurricane Dorian within the Atlantic had been each class 2 storms.
In the meantime, Tropical Storm Fernand packed sustained winds of 45 mph and had only recently made landfall over northeastern Mexico. Gabrielle strengthened right into a tropical storm on September four over the japanese Atlantic, and had sustained winds of 50 mph across the time of this picture.
Knowledge for the simulated natural-color picture had been acquired with the Superior Baseline Imager on the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite tv for pc (GOES) 16. GOES-16 is operated by NOAA; NASA helps develop and launch the GOES sequence of satellites.
Picture credit score: NASA Earth Observatory/Joshua Stevens; NOAA Nationwide Environmental Satellite tv for pc, Knowledge, and Info Service. Caption: Kathryn Hansen. Larger image