Powerful Hurricane Jimena has well-defined bands of clouds that circle a distinctive eye in this photo-like image from September 1, 2009. The outer bands of the storm were already over the southern tip of Baja California.
Forecasters expected the third hurricane of the 2015 Atlantic season to follow a trajectory away from the U.S. East Coast, but large amounts of precipitation could not be ruled out.
Hurricane Felicia, with its distinct eye and tight bands of spiraling clouds, and the less distinct Tropical Storm Enrique sat side by side over the East Pacific Ocean on August 4, 2009.
Super Typhoon Choi-wan is formidable in these images, with tightly spiraling bands of clouds and a distinct eye. A vertical cross section of the storm reveals towering clouds and a clear eye surrounded by dense clouds.
This pair of images from August 22 shows a natural-color (photo-like) view of Hurricane Bill captured by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Aqua satellite combined with a view of the vertical structure of the clouds measured by the radar on the Cloudsat satellite.