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Monday, November 23, 2009

Photo: Hurricane Forecast Revised as El Nino Potential Grows


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Hurricane Katrina whirls over the Gulf of Mexico near the Florida Keys in August 2005. One Atlantic hurricane forecast for 2009 was revised in June 2009, due to the increasing likelihood of a hurricane-dampening El Niño event in the Pacific.

Satellite image courtesy NASA/Jeff Schmaltz, MODIS Land Rapid Response Team