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Scoop Images: Farewell Frances, Hello Songda, Ivan
All images courtesy of NASA's Modis land imaging satellite program …
Hurricane Frances positioned directly over Florida. She has since moved north to Georgia and has been downgraded to a depression. CLICK TO TRACK FRANCES
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.. Meanwhile Typhoon Songda is already being felt in Southern Japan and is shortly expected to pass between Korea and Japan with its fringes bringing dangerous wind and rain to both nations. CLICK TO TRACK TYPHOON SONGDA
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…And out in the Atlantic Ocean the presently Category 2 Hurricane Ivan is forecast to track towards Cuba and Florida. CLICK TO TRACK HURRICANE IVAN
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Alastair Thompson
Scoop Publisher
Alastair Thompson is the co-founder of Scoop. He is of Scottish and Irish extraction and from Wellington, New Zealand. Alastair has 24 years experience in the media, at the Dominion, National Business Review, North & South magazine, Straight Furrow newspaper and online since 1997. He is the winner of several journalism awards for business and investigative work.
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