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|Anonymous User (login or join us)| On Thursday, May 29, the
Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer
modis.gsfc.nasa.gov (MODIS) on NASA's terra.nasa.gov Terra
satellite observed Tropical Storm Alma as it was making landfall
in Nicaragua. The familiar shape of a hurricane -- a pinwheel of
clouds spinning around an obvious eye -- is hard to make out in
the image. The center of circulation was just offshore, south of
the city of León. The remains of the storm headed north, and by
May 31, when the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer
modis.gsfc.nasa.gov (MODIS) on NASA's aqua.nasa.gov Aqua
satellite collected the bottom image, they were helping to fuel
Tropical Storm Arthur. The image shows the storm making landfall
at Belize. According to
www.nhc.noaa.gov/archive/2008/tws/MIATWSEP_may.shtml? the
National Hurricane Center, Alma was the first tropical storm
ever to make landfal