Hurricane Rick: Fly Into The Eye - from NASA's 250m MODIS Visible Imagery
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NASA MODIS Imagery of Hurricane Rick at maximum intensity. While landfall for Rick this past week was thankfully mainly anticlimactic, there's no doubt that the storm's incredibly rapid developmen...
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While landfall for Rick this past week was thankfully mainly anticlimactic, there's no doubt that the storm's incredibly rapid development into a 180mph hurricane will have meteorologists studying the storm for years to come.
With winds near 180 mph and estimated central pressure of 906 mb, Rick peaked just below Hurricane Linda (1997) with winds of 185 mph.
Rick's explosive expansion seemed due to a perfect blend of above average sea surface tem