File:Gustav aug 27 2008.jpg

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English: Ragged from its encounter with the mountains of Haiti, Gustav re-emerged over the Caribbean Sea as a tropical storm on August 27. The storm was just starting to strengthen again when the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Terra satellite captured this image at 11:30 a.m. local time on August 27, 2008. The National Hurricane Center estimated Gustav’s winds to be about 95 kilometers per hour (60 miles per hour). While the storm’s outer clouds maintained some hint of a spiral shape, the storm center little resembled a hurricane. Towering clouds make the surface of the storm seem to bubble. Gustav was predicted to become a hurricane, possibly even a major hurricane, before crossing Cuba on August 30 and striking the Gulf Coast of the United States a few days later.
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Source http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=20406
Author NASA image by Jeff Schmaltz, MODIS Rapid Response Team, Goddard Space Flight Center.

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