Isaac and Joyce

While both tropical storms, Isaac and Joyce are churning down in the Atlantic, I jumped over to www.nhc.noaa.gov to check out the pictures!  Unfortunately, I expected something more grand.  Neither storm has the lovely cloud swirls yet and are instead more like cloud clusters.

Tropical Storm Isaac has a chance to turn hurricane before hitting the Domincan Republic and Haiti.  The storm's current pressure (as of Advisory #10) is 1003 MB.  As a hurricane strengthens, its central pressure drops, the eye becomes more well formed, and the hurricane takes on its classic cyclone shape. 

Check for updated pictures of the storms every 30 minutes here: http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/satellite.shtml (Atlantic views, GOES-East, Atlantic Wide View, Visible link)

Advisories, predictions, current stats of the storms can be found here: http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/

Here's a post I did last year on my main blog about hurricanes in the past:  http://www.amedeo-amedeo.com/2011/08/hurricanes.html