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fromSFGATE
15 hours ago

Hurricane Risk Just Got Harder To Predict-and Coastal Homeowners May Pay the Price

The SSMIS contains microwave sensors that can see through clouds and capture imagery at night. This makes them useful for monitoring tropical activity when other types of satellite imagery aren't able to capture the storms.
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fromThe Atlantic
1 day ago

Hurricane Science Was Great While It Lasted

Clouds are the bane of a hurricane forecaster's existence, but technology such as the Special Sensor Microwave Imager Sounder provides crucial high-resolution images of storm structures.
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