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Hurricane Blanca

The storm became the earliest second major hurricane in eastern Pacific records, but the dynamic storm appeared to stir up enough cold seawater to cut down on its own strength.


NASA Earth Observatory map (bottom) by Joshua Stevens using RapidScat data from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. NASA image (top) by Jeff Schmaltz, LANCE/EOSDIS Rapid Response. Caption by Mike Carlowicz.

Published June 6, 2015
Data acquired June 4, 2015

Sources:
ISS > RapidScat
Terra > MODIS