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Image: NOAA-20 Fred, Grace, and 08L August 16 2021

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Description: Taken from the VIIRS instrument on the NOAA-20 satellite, this true color image of the Western Atlantic Ocean and Caribbean Sea was taken on August 16, 2021. It shows three tropical cyclones all active simultaneously on that day, Tropical Storm Fred was the storm on the left of the image making landfall in the Florida Panhandle, Grace was the storm passing south of Hispaniola on the bottom it weakened into a depression at the time this image was taken, but it would eventually become the first major hurricane of the season before it made landfall in Veracruz, Mexico later on in the same week, and lastly Tropical Depression Eight was the storm in the vicinity of Bermuda on the upper right of the image at the time, Tropical Depression Eight would eventually become Hurricane Henri which made landfall in New England around a week later.
Title: NOAA-20 Fred, Grace, and 08L August 16 2021
Credit: https://www.nnvl.noaa.gov/view/#TRUE
Author: NOAA
Usage Terms: Public domain
License: Public domain
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