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NASA image courtesy of David Long, Brigham Young University, on the QuikSCAT Science Team, and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Caption by Michon Scott.
On September 8, 2008, Hurricane Ike hammered Cuba, and remained poised to strike the U.S. Gulf Coast in the next few days.
This data visualization of the hurricane shows observations from NASA's QuikSCAT satellite on September 8, 2008, at 7:12 a.m. local time (11:12 UTC). Landmasses in this image appear in dark gray. Cuba appears in the center of this image. The southern tip of Florida appears in the northwest, the Bahamas appear in the northeast, and parts of Haiti appear in the southeast. Colors ranging from dark blue to purple indicate wind speeds over the ocean. The most intense winds appear off the coast of Cuba, at more than 50 knots (purple). Radiating out from this region are wind speeds of more than 25 knots (red). Small barbs indicate wind direction, and white barbs point to areas of heavy rain.
According to the U.S. National Hurricane Center's Public Advisory 29A, a hurricane warning was in effect for ten Cuban provinces at the time this image was acquired. The eye of the storm was roughly 35 kilometers (20 miles) south of Camaguey, Cuba. Maximum sustained winds were 155 kilometers (100 miles) per hour with stronger gusts.
Families displaced by flooding brought on by typhoons Ketsana and Parma are continued housed for a month now in a school gymnasium turned into an evacuation centre in Muntinlupa town south ...
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