Awesome EARL Powers Toward U.S. Coast

What’s worse than a major hurricane making landfall?

EARL Now a Cat 4B Hurricane Packing Sustained Winds of 235km/hr, Intensifying

Hurricane EARL - GOES Satellite Floater Imagery. Click image to enlarge

Real-Time U.S. Composite Satellite Image

Animate image. Click image to enlarge.

Hurricane Earl

Hurricane EARL – natural-color image was captured by MODIS on NASA’s Aqua satellite at 2 p.m. EDT on September 1, 2010. The Bahamas are immediately west of the storm. Download large image (6 MB, JPEG) – Image acquired September 1, 2010. Click image to enlarge.

Hurricane Earl – The Astronaut View

This photograph was captured with a digital SLR camera by a NASA astronaut, Douglas Wheelock, on August 30, 2010, showing Earl with a distinct eye that spanned about 28 kilometers. Full caption here.

POES Composite  -  (Daily Sea Surface Temps)

• Atlantic Ocean Current Temp: Image - Loop\

Other Satellite Images o EARL

Satellite Imagery (GOES 12 Floater/NOAA/SSD). West Atlantic – IR (Aviation Color Enhancement). Click image to enlarge.

Loops/ Satellite Animations (GOES 12; NOAA/SSD).  Tropical Atlantic Hurricane Sector – Infrared. Click image to animate.

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• Hurricane EARL Public Advisory (watches and warnings)

• Storm Extravaganza
• The Storm Trio
• FEWW New Hurricane Scale
• Satellite Imagery

Niger Flooding Has Left 200,000 Homeless

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Nothing Left in Niger

When an entire country faces collapse

Niger river, Africa’s third biggest, burst its banks in its worst recorded floods in 80 years.

“The bustling districts have now turned into ghost towns, we’ve never seen the like in living memory,” according to an elderly fisherman.

“It’s a double catastrophe: before the rain, the people lacked food, now the few reserve stocks of cereal have been washed away by the water. There’s nothing left,” a village chief said.

The entire Niger has been affected by flooding triggered by torrential rain. Image Credit AFP. Image may be subject to copyright.

“Zarmagandaye, Lamorde and Karadje are three districts of the west African country’s capital Niamey which have turned into marshland since the beginning of August.” AFP reported.

“According to Niger’s Early Warning System (SAP) and catastrophe management officials, the whole of the country, including the perenially arid desert of the northern Agadez region, has been affected by flooding caused by heavy rain.”

Up to 8 million people in Niger face severe food shortages after a serious crop failure in the 2009-2010 harvest, U.N. says.

Niger Basin Authority forecasts another major rise in the river levels between November and January, the report said.

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