September 1, 2009
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UNISYS Water Vapor North and West Hemisphere Satellite
That is an incredible vortex over the Gulf of Alaska. There are two storms in the Eastern Pacific, "Hurricane Jimena" and "Tropical Storm Kevin." Kevin is further to the west of the Baja Peninsula. Kevin has a well defined 'eye' and is traveling parallel to Jimena. There is also a tropical system south of Hawaii.
The 'system' of Jimena is actually a heat transfer system that extends across Mexico, the Gulf of Mexico, along the Eastern seaboard of the USA and across the Atlantic. In the Atlantic there is a tropical system easily discerned maintaining a place east of the Lesser Antilles. There remains a turbulence the Bahamas and west of Africa. The African tropical system is further north today, just off Senegal.
