Date: September 21st 2006

The following sections were updated since 19 September 2006

-- DUST AND SMOKE (1 updated events, 1 new images) --

HAZE OVER EASTERN CHINA A thick band of haze hung over eastern China in mid-September 2006 The haze likely resulted from urban and industrial pollution, agricultural fires, and weather patterns that trapped the pollutants in the region * http://naturalhazards nasa gov/shownh php3?img_id=13877 * MODIS(Terra) image from Sep 17 2006 (Posted on Sep 19 2006 9:36AM)

-- FIRE (1 updated events, 1 new images) --

DAY FIRE IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA The Day Fire started in Los Padres National Forest north of Los Angeles on September 4, 2006 On September 18, winds drove a thick plume of smoke to the northeast * http://naturalhazards nasa gov/shownh php3?img_id=13881 * MODIS(Aqua) image from Sep 19 2006 (Posted on Sep 20 2006 9:59AM)

-- FLOOD (1 updated events, 1 new images) --

FLOODS IN THAILAND Though floods are not unusual in Thailand during the summer monsoon season, 2006 brought unusually heavy flooding * http://naturalhazards nasa gov/shownh php3?img_id=13884 * MODIS(Aqua) image from Sep 18 2006 (Posted on Sep 20 2006 1:34PM)

-- STORM (4 updated events, 6 new images) --

TYPHOON SHANSHAN Typhoon Shanshan formed on September 10, 2006, in the western Pacific well off the coast of the Philippine Islands Over the course of the next 36 hours, it grew from a tropical depression to a typhoon * http://naturalhazards nasa gov/shownh php3?img_id=13883 * (TRMM) image from Sep 17 2006 (Posted on Sep 20 2006 12:08PM) * http://naturalhazards nasa gov/shownh php3?img_id=13878 * MODIS(Aqua) image from Sep 17 2006 (Posted on Sep 19 2006 9:50AM)

TYPHOON YAGI Typhoon Yagi (the Japanese word for goat) formed as a tropical depression in the north-western Pacific Ocean on September 17, 2006
* http://naturalhazards nasa gov/shownh php3?img_id=13882 * MODIS(Aqua) image from Sep 19 2006 (Posted on Sep 20 2006 12:12PM)

HURRICANE HELENE Hurricane Helene was the eighth named storm of the 2006 Atlantic hurricane season Helene intensified from a tropical depression (area of low air pressure) south of the Cape Verde Islands and became a tropical storm on September 12 * http://naturalhazards nasa gov/shownh php3?img_id=13880 * MODIS(Terra) image from Sep 19 2006 (Posted on Sep 19 2006 9:58AM) * http://naturalhazards nasa gov/shownh php3?img_id=13873 * MODIS(Aqua) image from Sep 18 2006 (Posted on Sep 19 2006 5:50PM)

HURRICANE GORDON Hurricane Gordon was the seventh named storm of the 2006 Atlantic hurricane season Gordon started off the Leeward Islands in the Caribbean on September 10, and it grew in power and size steadily over the next several days * http://naturalhazards nasa gov/shownh php3?img_id=13879 * MODIS(Aqua) image from Sep 19 2006 (Posted on Sep 19 2006 12:15PM)

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