How to Dissect a Hurricane

This image outlay and explanation is phenomenal.

3-dimensional perspective on the storm conditional that harvest a hurricane event.


A Brief excerpt:
June 1 marks the beginning of hurricane season. Every year, meteorologists strive to predict hurricane behavior to reduce risk to lives and property while also minimizing the costs associated with storm preparations and evacuations. Perfect predictions of hurricane behavior are still a thing of the future, but NASA scientists are combining observations from field campaigns and the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) satellite with supercomputing modeling power to shed light on the internal workings of hurricanes and how the eye of the storm itself feeds towering thunderstorm clouds known as hot towers, which cause storms to intensify.

Full story at: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImages/images.php3?img_id=17662