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Polar Orbiting Satellite View

Hurricane Jeanne

Friday, September 24, 2004 ... NOAA-17
Hurricane "Jeanne" with 100 mph winds in the Atlantic east of the northern Bahamas or about 600 miles SE of the upper coast of Georgia.

The Satellite passed over the area from NNE to SSW at 11:30 AM EDT.

Multi-spectral image use the two visible channels and one thermal channel of the weather satellite. Most of the image is of the visible light with the high thin clouds tinted blue
Polar orbiting Satellite view from WTOC-TV Savannah

Received and processed by Patrick Prokop, Meteorologist, WTOC-TV, Savannah, GA

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