2013 Atlantic Hurricane Season Animation - GOES East

[Brian Osburn]

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2013 Atlantic Hurricane Season - June/November - GOES East Infrared Hurricane Sector Animation

You'd think NASA would publish such a compilation of weather imagery, but they've missed the mark. This is something they may provide later on at some time. Right now, this is the only long play animation of the entire 2013 hurricane season.

The 2013 Atlantic hurricane season was the quietest in 30 years. Do you remember how many hurricanes there were? Do you remember the dire predictions for 2013? All this information and more is in the video.

This animation, created from NASA imagery via the GOES East satellite, provides valuable insight into the strangely quiet hurricane season of 2013.

There are over 8,000 individual images used to create the animation. The NASA server requires manual download of each image, one at a time. Then, after 3 weeks on their server, the images of the Atlantic Hurricane Sector are no longer offered.

The informational graphics include important seasonal facts. A running total of storms is compared to the dire predictions from NOAA NWS and Colorado State. How did the predictions fare?

Finally, there is an acknowledgment of the 4th largest typhoon in history created from satellite imagery and radar.

Six months of weather in the Atlantic hurricane sector plays out in fifteen minutes.