Hurricane Charley

Hurricane Charley

The SeaWiFS sensor onboard the OrbView-2 satellite captured this true-color image of Tropical Storm Charley on August 10 at 1:30 PM EDT. In this oblique view, Charley is located in the bottom right corner of the image.

At the time this image was taken, Charley has maximum sustained winds of 45 mph with a minimum central pressure of 1005 mb. Charley was moving towards the west-northwest at a rapid 24 mph.

Image provided by the SeaWiFS Project, NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, and ORBIMAGE.