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Watching the weather
Watching the weather

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image title5-day sequence of water vapour images from GOES East
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captionA sequence of water vapour images taken from the geostationary satellite GOES East (placed over the east coast of America, longitude 75° W) once every three hours over a period of five days from 0000 UTC on 18 August 2007, the day that Hurricane Dean reached Category 5 status as it crossed the Atlantic and eventually hit the Yucatan peninsula.

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codeMI030
SectionMeteorological instruments
SubsectionSatellites
image credit© 2007 EUMETSAT
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