Image showing TRMM's Precipitation Radar (PR) and the TRMM Microwave Imager (TMI) instrument resolving the intensifying thunderstorms near a tropical cyclone Magda’s eyewall off the northwest coast of Australia on January 21st, 2010.

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A GOES-12 1 km visible image of Hurricane Katrina. At landfall, the storm was a Category 3 hurricane.

Original Source: http://www.nnvl.noaa.gov

Data from the NOAA GOES satellite. Images produced by Hal Pierce. Original source: http://rsd.gsfc.nasa.gov/rsd/images/Floyd.html