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Fuel for Hurricane Milton

The storm rapidly intensified to Category 5 strength over warm gulf waters.


NASA Earth Observatory images by Wanmei Liang, using sea surface temperature data from NASA’s Short-term Prediction Research and Transition (SPoRT) center; VIIRS brightness temperature data from NASA EOSDIS LANCE, GIBS/Worldview, and the Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS); and hurricane track data from NOAA’s National Hurricane Center. Story by Lindsey Doermann.

Published October 8, 2024
Data acquired October 7, 2024

Sources:
Aqua > MODIS
NOAA-21 > VIIRS
Suomi NPP > VIIRS