String of Storms in the Atlantic Ocean | NASA Earth Observatory

String of Storms in the Atlantic Ocean | NASA Earth Observatory

Planet Earth: June 23, 2023 (labeled version)

Tropical storms Bret and Cindy can be seen lining up over the Atlantic Ocean. Smoke from wildfires in Canada is also visible.

Image captured by NASA’s Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera (EPIC) on NOAA’s DSCOVR satellite

Distance from Earth: about 1.5 million kilometers (1 million miles)

Planet Earth: June 23, 2023

Two tropical cyclones formed over the Atlantic Ocean and moved toward the Caribbean in June 2023. This marks the first time on record that more than one such storm has developed in the month of June.

NASA’s Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera (EPIC) on the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s DSCOVR satellite captured this view of tropical storms Bret and Cindy lining up over the Atlantic on June 22, 2023. Smoke from wildfires in Canada is also visible in this image, which was taken from about 1.5 million kilometers (1 million miles) away from Earth.

On the day the image was acquired, Bret neared the central islands of the Lesser Antilles on a westward path, while Cindy gathered strength in the tropical Atlantic. The following day, on June 23, Bret had passed over the islands and continued moving west, with maximum sustained winds near 95 kilometers (60 miles) per hour. Cindy progressed on a west-northwest path with sustained winds approaching 85 kilometers (50 miles) per hour.

According to the National Hurricane Center, Bret was forecast to weaken and dissipate over the central Caribbean Sea. Cindy was expected to continue west-northwest and strengthen for about a day before weakening.

The Deep Space Climate Observatory is a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) space weather, space climate, and Earth observation satellite at the Sun-Earth L1 Lagrange point. It was launched by a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on February 11, 2015, from Cape Canaveral in Florida. This is NOAA's first operational deep space satellite and became its primary system of warning Earth in the event of solar magnetic storms. [Wikipedia]

Image Credit: NASA Earth Observatory images by Lauren Dauphin, using data from DSCOVR EPIC

Image Date: June 22, 2023

Release Date: June 23, 2023

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