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Another storm:

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From an altitude of 230 miles, external cameras aboard the International Space Station captured video of Tropical Storm Katia at 10:03 a.m. EDT August 31, 2011, as it churned across the central Atlantic. Katia is moving west-northwest at a brisk speed of 21 miles an hour, packing winds of 65 miles an hour. Katia is expected to strengthen into a major hurricane over the Labor Day weekend, but is not an immediate threat to land
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simulatorman said:
You're down there somewhere:

How has it been?
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After the bizzare atmosphere of about 150 people just waiting for something to happen, it was alright.

Irene passed north of us (we just got some high wind and lots of rain for Tuesday/Wednesday) with power outages throughout the day and night, then Thursday was back to normal.

Was quite an experience, but I'm glad it changed course slightly and didn't go right over us as predicted.

Got a photo on the camera of the backend of the storm so hopefully that will look alright.
 
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Atlantic Ocean tropical storms:

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There are three areas of tropical trouble brewing in the Atlantic Ocean Basin today and they'll be there over the Labor Day holiday weekend. NOAA's GOES-13 satellite today provided a look at the location and development of Tropical Storm Katia (right) in the central Atlantic, newborn Tropical Depression 13 (left), and developing System 94L (top) in the north Atlantic off the New England coast.

The GOES-13 image was created by NASA's GOES Project at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. The image showed Katia to be the most well-organized of the three systems, although Tropical Depression 13 and System 94L are developing the typical hallmark "comma shape" of a tropical storm.

Tropical Depression 13 is the only one of the three causing watches and warnings, although Katia is roughing up the surf in the Lesser Antilles. For more information about all three storms, visit NASA's Hurricane page: www.nasa.gov/hurricane, and over the weekend get updates on Facebook and Twitter @NASAHurricane.

Text: NASA/Rob Gutro
Image: NASA/NOAA GOES Project
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Scuzi said:
We're starting to become quite worried about Tropical Storm Lee...

http://www.nola.com/hurricane/index.ssf/2011/09/tropical_storm_lee_drifting_no.html

15in of rain will bring pretty bad flooding and puts our house at threat, and I can't even be there to prepare! :(
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I hope that you get away without damage. Is that a holiday home?

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An animation of NOAA satellite observations from Aug. 31 at 10:45 a.m. EDT through Sept. 2 at 10:45 a.m. EDT shows the birth of Tropical Depression 13, now Tropical Storm Lee, south of the Louisiana coast. Tropical Storm Lee threatens the northern Gulf coast states with heavy rainfall all weekend. The GOES-13 cloud images are overlaid on a true-color NASA/MODIS map. Storm data comes from NOAA's GOES-13 satellite
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Aboard the International Space Station, external and crew-tended cameras captured new views of Hurricane Katia as it sped north over the Atlantic west of Bermuda at 10:10 a.m. EDT on Sept. 8, 2011, packing winds of 90 miles an hour and, an hour-and-a-half later, views of the lingering wildfires in central Texas from a vantage point 230 miles above the Earth.
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An animation of NOAA satellite observations from Sept. 5 at 11:15 a.m. EDT through Sept. 8 at 10:45 a.m. EDT shows Hurricane Katia in the western Atlantic between Bermuda and the U.S. East coast; Tropical Storm Lee's remnants affecting the northeastern U.S.; Tropical Storm Maria moving west from the central Atlantic; and newborn Tropical Storm Nate in the Bay of Campeche, Gulf of Mexico. The GOES-13 cloud images are overlaid on a true-color NASA/MODIS map. Storm data from NOAA's GOES-13 satellite.
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