GOES-13 on top of new seventeenth Atlantic (sub) tropical depression

Wednesday, October 6, 2010 - 11:50 in Earth & Climate

The GOES-13 satellite keeps a vigilant eye on the Atlantic Ocean and eastern U.S. and this morning at 5 a.m. EDT it saw System 97L organize into the seventeenth tropical depression of the Atlantic Ocean season. The only catch is that it is actually a subtropical depression, so it is currently known as Subtropical Depression 17 (TD17).

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