NASA's Aqua satellite noticed that a new tropical disturbance formed today, November 19, just 8.1 degrees north of the Equator in the western Pacific Ocean.
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Anja (Southern Indian Ocean)
Anja has continued to weaken over the last 24 hours, and NASA's QuikScat satellite has confirmed that the once mighty Category 4 Cyclone is now a tropical storm in the southern Indian Ocean.
Ida the Coastal Low
Residents in eastern Virginia and northeastern North Carolina were hit especially hard by the heavy rains from last week's coastal low pressure area, formerly known as hurricane Ida.
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NASA's Hurricane Page is All "a-Twitter"
In 2005, NASA created the NASA Hurricane and Tropical Cyclone Web page that covers NASA research on tropical cyclones around the world every day. Now, NASA's Hurricane page has a companion "Twitter" page.
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El Niño Pumping Up, Warm Kelvin Wave Surges Toward South America →
Recent sea-level height data from the Ocean Surface Topography Mission/Jason-2 oceanography satellite indicates that El Niño is experiencing a late-fall resurgence.
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New NASA 3-D Video Shows Thunderstorms in Tropical Storm Ida
NASA's Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission, or TRMM satellite has the ability to provide data that can be made into three-dimensional images.
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GOES Offers Real-Time Hurricane Alley Movies
Thanks to NASA's GOES Project, individuals can now access real-time satellite data from the Pacific and Atlantic oceans.
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NASA Satellites Catalog the Deadly History of Tropical Storm Parma
NASA satellites cataloged the deadly history of Tropical Storm Parma, during its long life (Sept 28-Oct 14, 2009) in the Western Pacific, where it caused flooding, destruction and death in the Philippines and China.
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Floundering El Niños Make for Fickle Forecasts
Since May 2009, the tropical Pacific Ocean has switched from a cool pattern of ocean circulation known as La Niña to her warmer sibling, El Niño.
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NASA's TRMM Satellite Sees Tropical Storm Ketsana's Record Flooding in Northern Philippines
The latest tropical system to the hit the Philippines, Tropical Storm Ketsana (known locally as "Tropical Storm Ondoy"), has resulted in record flooding in the capital of Manila on the island of Luzon in the northern Philippines.