New SeaWinds scatterometer imagery taken by NASA's QuikScat satellite shows tropical storms Harvey in the Gulf of Mexico and Hilary in the Pacific, along with Hurricane Gert near Bermuda, as they spun over the ocean on September 20. Those conditions have forced the jet stream much farther north and created a corridor for newly born hurricanes to move unimpeded toward the Atlantic coast. Tropical Storm Hilary, downgraded from a hurricane earlier this week, can be seen in yellow off the coast of Mexico's Baja Peninsula, and Tropical Storm Harvey, also in yellow, is situated in the Gulf of Mexico.
Blues indicate low wind speeds in the animation, while magentas represent medium wind speeds.
The motion of the arrows denotes wind direction. The orbiting SeaWinds radar instrument is managed for NASA's Earth Science Enterprise, Washington, DC, by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, which also built the SeaWinds radar instrument and is providing ground science processing systems. NOAA has contributed support to ground systems processing and related activities.