Hurricane Season Begins

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RedOrbit.com, 6/3/13

 

 

 

Hurricane Barbara, a compact category 1 storm, hit the coast of southern Mexico on May 29, 2013, before weakening over the Isthmus of Tehuantepec. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Aqua satellite captured this view of the storm as it made landfall. According to NOAA records, only one other eastern Pacific hurricane—Agatha in 1971—has made landfall in May.

 

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