Cool Geo-Pic: Atlantic Ocean Temperatures

This Cool Geo-Pic comes again from NASA's Earth Observatory. Given my daughter was born between to hurricance passes, this is always something on interest to us "New Floridians".

Quick "Cut & Paste" Highlights:

" ...The first month of the 2009 Atlantic hurricane season drew to a close without so much as a tropical storm, but that isn’t unusual. According to the National Hurricane Center, the 1944-2002 average for named storms in June was only about 0.75, which means they don't occur every year. When they do form, it is usually the Gulf of Mexico that brews them up, and this image of sea surface temperatures on June 30, 2009, shows why...."

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References / Credits:

National Hurricane Center. Tropical Cyclone Climatology. Accessed July 1, 2009.
NASA image by Jesse Allen and Robert Simmon. Caption by Rebecca Lindsey.
Instrument:
Aqua - MODIS