1. Weather satellites kept their electronic eyes on her. 2. Among other things, NOAA runs weather satellites, makes forecasts, tracks hurricanes and tornadoes, probes the deep ocean and monitors fisheries. 3. And a meteorologist at Pennsylvania State University said that, in a way, the flooding showed the limits of forecasting, even in this age of weather satellites. 4. As the weather satellite peered through the vast expanse of clear skies over the Northeast Saturday morning, sinuous, thin fingers of grayish white outlined river valleys. 5. At a Naval Research Laboratory in Mississippi, oceanographer Sonia Gallegos has been using weather satellites to track red tide worldwide. 6. At least as of Monday night, this highly imperfect storm ended up spawning a lot of frustration and questions about the usefulness of supercomputers and weather satellites. 7. Before weather satellites, hurricanes were really unpredictable. 8. From a weather satellite, the clouds appeared as just a big amorphous blob. 9. From the vantage of weather satellites, a thick, smoky pall has hung over the Gulf of Mexico the past week. 10. Hurricane Erika played possum with the weather satellite Monday morning, keeping its large eye closed with a lid of low clouds. |
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