Movies of Hurricanes

Movie Catalog

[Note: QuickTime for Mac and Windows machines is available from Apple.]

Check out the howling winds that accompany each hurricane:
1. Hurricane Linda which hit Baja California and Mexico in September 1997,
2. Hurricane Fran which hit the Bahamas and the US in September 1996, and
3. Hurricane Luis as observed in September 1995.
You will need a QuickTime Player and a VRML browser such as the Cosmo Player to view the hurricanes.

Hurricane Mitch timeseries (1998 October)

Mitch approaching Honduras.

QT, 1.1MB

Additional still images

Hurricane Georges timeseries (1998 September)

Georges churning towards Florida

QT, 1MB

Additional still images

Georges in the Gulf of Mexico

September 27 (QT, 1MB)

[Guillermo]

Morphed movie of Hurricane Guillermo

The following animations of GOES-9 data show explosive convection in Hurricane Guillermo.

The images were taken 1997 August 2 and show the hurricane in the eastern Pacific. NOAA research aircraft were in the eye at about the same time.

The interval between images is as short as 1 minute. Unfortunately, in its operational mode the GOES-9 satellite has gaps of up to 30 min between images while it scans other parts of the earth.

To bridge these gaps, Mark Sutton has morphed successive frames.

Morphing is a subjective process rather than a scientific interpolation, but it does provide an more continuous view of the hurricane.

Marit Jentoft-Nilsen converted the morphed sequence to QuickTime, and also created a raw sequence (no morphing) and a side-by-side comparison of the two.

[Note: the MPEG versions are quicker to download but much less sharp.]

Hurricane Fran Fly-By (1996 Sep 4)

[Fran fly-by]