At 10:00 a.m. PDT, showers and thunderstorms associated with the remnants of Felix extended from the Gulf of Tehuantepec southward for a couple hundred miles. The leading edge of Felix’s showers and thunderstorms had crossed into the eastern Pacific as seen in purple in this satellite image. This infrared satellite image from September 6 was created by data from the Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) on NASA’s Aqua satellite. This AIRS image shows the temperature of the cloud tops or the surface of the Earth in cloud-free regions. The lowest temperatures (in purple) are associated with high, cold cloud tops associated with the lingering showers and thunderstorms. The infrared signal does not penetrate through clouds. Where there are no clouds the AIRS instrument reads the infrared signal from the surface of the Earth, revealing warmer temperatures (red). This infrared image shows some scattered areas of strong convection (rising air and heavier rain) of the storm (in purple) off the coast of southwestern Mexico and in Central America. Forecasters at the National Hurricane Center do not expect any tropical cyclone formation from Felix’s remnants or elsewhere in the eastern Pacific in the next two days. |
The MODIS instrument onboard NASA’s Terra spacecraft captured one bird’s-eye view of Hurricane Fabian in the Atlantic Ocean. In this image Fabian is located about 190 miles north-northeast of Barbuda in the northern Leeward Islands. The Sea-viewing Wide-Field-of-view Sensor aboard the Orbview-2 satellite took this most recent image of Fabian. Top image courtesy: MODIS Land Rapid Response Team at NASA GSFC. Bottom image courtesy: NASA/Orbimage |
