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A low-pressure system in the western Gulf of Mexico could develop into a hurricane during an Atlantic season that has remained exceptionally quiet and has seen no hurricanes through early October. The projected track points to heavy rainfall and a possible landfall between southeastern Louisiana and the rest of Florida.
NASA and its European partners are using the Sentinel-6B and Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich satellites to measure sea-surface height and atmospheric properties during El Niño, with the aim of improving estimates of hurricane intensity and the speed at which storms intensify. Ocean-height data are scheduled to be incorporated into NOAA’s ocean heat content algorithm before the end of the year.