Satellite Image of the Day: The NOAA/NASA GOES-13 weather satellite captured this image of Hurricane Irene this morning at 10:45 AM EDT. (Embiggen.)
At the time, Irene was nearly a third the size of the entire East Coast.
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nearly a third the size of the entire East Coast
And if you look closely, there was another trop depression forming off the coast of Africa. Now known as Trop Storm...
Our world is such...fascinating object.