

It was originally designed to address the needs of the near real time applications community to provide relevant information for time-critical scenarios such as wildfire and flood management. Building upon a set of open source mapping and user interface libraries, it provides an environment to visually discover interesting phenomena as observed by NASA satellites, then download the data for further analysis. Worldview is a software tool designed for interactively browsing and downloading imagery from NASA's Earth observing satellites. Here's how climate change is making wildfires and hurricanes more intense every year.Worldview is a software tool designed for interactively browsing and downloading imagery from NASA's Earth observing satellites. 21).īoth the record wildfire and hurricane seasons have been exacerbated by ongoing global climate change, according to climate researchers. Meanwhile, Tropical Storm Beta is strengthening and is predicted to hit the Gulf Coast today (Sept. Tropical Storm Alpha formed near the coast of Portugal later on the same day. With months left to go in the season, the NHC has moved to Greek letters for the next 24 named storms. 18), Tropical Storm Wilfred became the 23rd named storm of the season, exhausting the official, alphabetical list of names for the year. The 2020 Atlantic hurricane season has been so active, the government has literally run out of names for new storms. 14) were just two of five named tropical cyclones that developed simultaneously in the Atlantic Ocean earlier this week only once, in 1971, were this many storms recorded in the Atlantic at the same time. Hurricanes Sally and Paulette (which made landfall in Bermuda as a Category 1 hurricane on Sept.

16) Hurricane Sally made landfall near Gulf Shores, Alabama, as a Category 2 hurricane, bringing "historic and catastrophic flooding," according to the National Hurricane Center (NHC). The hurricane season, meanwhile, is smashing records of its own. – Hurricanes from above: Images of nature's biggest storms – The 20 costliest, most destructive hurricanes to hit the US
