Tropical Storm Fay's Center Now Moving Inland
Baltimore MD (SPX) Aug 22, 2008 At 2:00 p.m. EDT, Thurs. Aug. 21, Tropical Storm Fay is finally making landfall again after meandering in the Atlantic Ocean over the last day. She was crossing Florida east coast near Flagler Beach at that time. Her center was near 28.4 degrees north latitude and 81.0 degrees west longitude. She was trudging forward in a west-northwest direction near 2 mph. Her maximum sustained winds were still being clocked at 60 mph. Fay's minimum central pressure was near 993 millibars. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA's Aqua satellite took this picture of Tropical Storm Fay at 2:35 p.m. local time (18:35 UTC) on August 20, 2008. The eye of the storm apparently hovers near the east coast of Florida, and clouds from the storm stretch hundreds of kilometers eastward over the Atlantic, and northward over Georgia and South Carolina. Her forecast track has changed a little, based on movement of fronts and high pressure system over the next couple of days, as calculated by computer models. She's forecast to move west across the Florida Panhandle then curve northwest into central Mississippi by Tuesday. Related Links Live radar from Jacksonville, Florida Goddard Space Flight Center Earth Observation News - Suppiliers, Technology and Application
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