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Special Section -
Hurricanes in 2005 -
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| Date taken | Image # | Description |
| Aug 25 | 13077 | On August 28, a few clouds lingered over Florida, but the storm had moved away to reveal extensive flooding. |
| Aug 27 30 | 13089 | On Saturday, August 27, 2005, New Orleans formed a tan and green grid sandwiched between the lake shore and the river in the lower image. Three days later, dark pools of water covered the eastern half of the city, and a large section of Lake Pontchartrain ballooned into the region immediately west of the city. |
| Aug 30 | 13090 | The top image ... shows flooding in all of the rivers flowing into the Gulf. |
| Aug 30 | 13094 | Although the Mississippi River undulates across the bottom of these images virtually unchanged, big changes are visible within the city of New Orleans on August 30, 2005 (top image), compared to April 26, 2000 (bottom.). |
| Aug 31 | 13096 | This image from Digital Globe’s Quickbird satellite shows the flooding that resulted from the failure of the levee near the 17th Street Canal, which runs top-to-bottom along the left edge of the image. |
| Aug 31 | 13098 | On August 31, 2005, ... captured the top image of the Mississippi River delta. In contrast to the lower image, taken on August 9, 2005 |
| Aug 31 | 13100 | The stadium itself was surrounded by flood water when the QuickBird satellite captured this detailed image on August 31. |
| Sept 4 | 13108 | The floods demonstrates how coastal wetlands function to protect inland regions from the destructive storm surge unleashed during powerful hurricanes such as Katrina. |
| Sept 2 | 13112 | Only the rectangular support pillars that once held up the Highway 90 bridge spanning Biloxi Bay remained standing after Hurricane Katrina battered the Mississippi shoreline with powerful winds and waves. |
| Sept 6 | 13120 | The water has been standing over the city for more than a week. In the top center of the image, the grid of houses is interrupted where City Park is buried under a smooth blue-green pool of water. |
| Sept 8 | 13133 | Over the course of just two days, visible progress was being made in pumping floodwaters out of New Orleans. |
| Sept 13 | 13134 | By September 13, both the highway and the stadium (the white circle immediately above the cloud shadow on the lower left side of the image) were dry. |
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The top image, taken on September 16, 2005, shows the
Mississippi and Alabama coast line, including the line of islands that bore
the brunt of Katrina’s fury. The lower images show the northern section of
the Chandeleur Islands at full resolution. A fringe of barrier islands line the coast of Mississippi, protecting the mainland from the pounding waves of most ocean storms, but the islands could not shelter the mainland from Hurricane Katrina’s exceptionally powerful storm surge. |
Media Special resource from Charleston
This is one of the better sources for
Hurricane study and project materials as presented in real time during a
Hurricane.
Live 5
Hurricane Center get the media presentation of information from
the East Coast as presented from
Live 5 News web site in the low country of
Charleston.
Look at the
Education web page and the
'terms to know' web page for a great start on
Hurricane knowledge and word descriptions.
Then explore
The Storm interactive web page to find out
about the Science, Power and Path of the Hurricane.
Now your are really ready for the
Tracking Map, the
Strike Map and the
Satellite Image
NOAA IT resources on Katrina: summary page with sub-links for indepth research and reading. There is the August perspective web page for additional reading. The Sept 15 story "NOAA PLAYS KEY ROLE IN CLEARING KATRINA" reviews the story development.
PBS Online News Hour -
After Katrina
Teen survivors of Katrina tell their story on
PBS News Hour Extra
How to use this story in a classroom...
PBS Hurricane Katrina
Devastates Gulf History and Culture
Teacher
Lesson Plans
BBC World Hurricance Katrina indepth
CNN main Katrina web page give the American insider story using the CNN resources for media reporting and presentation of Katrina over the many news days.
Yahoo Katrina news page is full of many items. News stories are posted 'off the wire' with time references.
In this link, the students get the story as it is first 'told' on the internet. This IT experience establishes the importance of checking the story against other previous information as well as developing a knowledge base through first hand reading of the story. This IT and literacy experience happens here when the story is in the various stages of development and reporting. The internet is the best experience to add value for students in critical learning and analysis of information as it becomes knowledge. Katrina is more value to the student as a source of reading, research, reporting and reviewing.
New York Times special Katrina web page
University of Texas at Austin Katrina Maps
Look at Google Maps to view your selected state or city. Google Earth Katrina images have just been posted. Please note that this is a new IT feature that likely requires a download from Google Earth.
Base Map of Katrina and the related Katrina web page from NOAA.
Katrina Meta search web site
Earth Observatory special images of Rita:
| Date taken | Image # | Description |
| Sept 17 | 13139 | Rita is 17th named storm system of the 2005 hurricane season. With the season not yet over, this makes 2005 already the 5th most active storm system since naming records were started in 1851. According to the National Hurricane Center, 21 tropical storms formed in 1933, 19 developed in 1995 and 1887, and 18 formed in 1969. Rita is also the earliest “R” named storm in a season. |
| Sept 17 | 13145 | This image shows the horizontal distribution of rain intensity within Rita as obtained from Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission’s (TRMM) sensors. Rain rates in the center part of the swath are from the TRMM Precipitation Radar (PR), the only radar capable of measuring precipitation from space. |
| Sept 18 | 13146 | After the immense devastation brought by Hurricane Katrina, all eyes were on Hurricane Rita as it passed over the Florida Keys and the Gulf of Mexico. Rita formed from a tropical disturbance east of the Turks and Caicos Islands into a depression (TD #18) on September 17, 2005. |
| Sept 21 | 13148 | The storm bears the markings of a powerful hurricane: it is compact and circular with an open eye through which the deep blue waters of the Gulf of Mexico are visible. |
| Sept 21 | 13149 | The image depicts wind speed in color and wind direction with small barbs. White barbs point to areas of heavy rain. The highest wind speeds, shown in purple, surround the center of the storm. |
| Sept 21 | 13153 | Rita became a near record breaking Category 5 hurricane late on September 21, 2005, with sustained wind speeds of 275 kilometers per hour (170 miles per hour), making it the fourth most powerful storm ever measured. |
| Sept 22 | 13154 | This image shows ocean circulation patterns in the Gulf of Mexico, framed by the Florida peninsula on the right and the Texas-Mexico Gulf Coast on the left (shown in gray). Red indicates strong circulation of warm waters. |
| Sept 23 | 13158 | ...upon entering the Gulf of Mexico, Rita tapped into a deep layer of very warm water located in the southeast part of the Gulf associated with the loop current. This allowed Rita to undergo a process known as rapid deepening, which transformed it into a powerful Category 5 hurricane with the 3rd lowest pressure ever recorded in the Atlantic Basin. |
| Sept 23 | 13159 | In this image, the outer bands of the storm already extend well over Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Arkansas, affecting many regions devastated by Hurricane Katrina on August 29. Over the Gulf of Mexico, Rita’s well-defined eye has clouded over. This closed or “dirty” eye shape is typical of a storm which has reached its peak strength and is slackening. |
| Sept 25 | 13161 | Rita was downgraded to a tropical depression, down from the near-record-breaking Category 5 hurricane it was on September 21, and the Category 3 hurricane it has been when it made landfall. By this time, sustained winds were down to 40 kilometers per hour (25 miles an hour). Fears that Rita would move very slowly and rain very heavily as it passed have fortunately proven to be somewhat exaggerated. |
| Sept 26 | 13165 | The image about shows the Multi-satellite Precipitation Analysis (MPA) rainfall totals due solely to Rita are shown for the period September 18-26, 2005 with storm symbols marking the storm track. |
| Sept 26 | 13166 | In the false color image, water is black or dark blue where it is colored with mud. The storm burst through levees lining canals, lakes and bayous throughout southeastern and central Louisiana. |
| Sept 29 | 13170 | The Category 3 storm battered the town with a 15-foot storm surge, high winds, and heavy rain as it moved inland. The effects of such treatment are clear in the top image ... shows other signs of Rita’s recent visit. Debris is scattered throughout the scene, particularly in the small canal on the left side of the image, and at least two buildings have been pushed away from the shore. |
BBC web page for Friday, September 23, Extreme Weather,
Live 5 Tracking Map for Rita
University of Texas at Austin web page of Rita Maps
Earth Observatory images of Wilma
| Date taken | Image # | Description |
| Oct 16 | 13203 | Tropical Depression Wilma does not appear impressive or well organized in this image. Wilma was still an unnamed tropical depression without the coherent spiral structure and cloud bands of a hurricane. |
| Oct 17 | 13204 | Wilma had only just become strong enough to be classified as a tropical storm and to acquire a name. |
| Oct 17 | 13207 | Wilma was the 21st named storm of the 2005 Atlantic Hurricane season. This made 2005 the most active hurricane season on record, tied with 1933, which also had 21 named storms. |
| Oct 19 | 13208 | When this image was taken, Wilma’s sustained winds were 120 kilometers per hour (75 miles per hour). Just 18 hours later, they were 280 km/hr (175 mph)! At that point, Wilma became the most powerful storm in terms of both wind speeds and air pressure ever measured in an Atlantic hurricane. |
| Oct 19 | 13213 | Wilma increased power quite dramatically, running the full gamut of the hurricane strength scale to Category 5 with sustained winds of 280 km/hr (175 mph; 150 knots)! |
| Oct 20 | 13214 | Wilma also broke records for the fastest development of a storm, going from tropical storm status to Category 5 hurricane in less than 24 hours. |
| Oct 20 | 13215 | On the morning of October 19, 2005, National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) aircraft measured a pressure of 882 millibars in the center of Hurricane Wilma—the lowest pressure ever measured in an Atlantic hurricane. This low pressure earned Wilma the status of the strongest hurricane ever recorded in the Atlantic. |
CNN pages tracker page for Wilma, Caribbean braces, Hurricane Season, Watching, waiting for Wilma, 3 p.m. ET
ACCU weather
WeatherNetwork Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale Storm Names Hurricane Glossary
NOAA - NHC - National Hurricane Center
NOAA - Hurricane web page, Hurricane FAQs,
Hurricanes: source: NASA Earth Observatory Hurricanes (use Netscape) students can study the following in groups or individually.
CBC Hurricanes
CBC TV Forces of Nature - Hurricanes
CBS interactive Eye of the Storm
CNN Hurricane Seasons
2005 including Katrina
2004
2003
2002
PBS Tracking Hurricanes - October 2003 transcript of show.
Natural Resources Canada - Hurricanes
FSU Superensemble Model Forecasts!
How Hurricanes Work from 'How Stuff Works'
USGS - Hurricanes and Extreme Storms
Weather Wiz Kids Hurricane web page answers What is a hurricane? How do hurricanes form? What is storm surge? When does hurricane season start? Who names hurricanes? What is the difference between a hurricane and a typhoon? Who are the "Hurricane Hunters"? - plus all you need to know to be the Hurricane IT resource students in the class - it is as easy as this one web page! Check out the Hurricane prep page.
NOAA El Niño Page History Theme Page
May 19, 2004. Typhoon Nida, see the satellite view of this typhoon over the Philippines.
Created February 4, 2002, revision date
December 02, 2005
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