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Tropical Storm Isaac , the 9th named storm of the 2012 Atlantic hurricane season , was baptize only yesterday ( Aug. 21 ) , but already the violent storm is a movie star .
Ananimation made from satellite imagescaptured Aug. 19 through Aug. 21 show the storm ’s birth — a rough fleck of clouds moves into human body , organizes itself into a rotating deal and begins to channelize toward land .
On Aug. 22 a satellite captured Tropical Strom Isaac and a neighboring burgeoning storm side-by-side.
Officials at the National Hurricane Center in Miami named the tempest at 5 p.m. local clock time yesterday , once Air Forcehurricane - hunting aircraftflying through the violent storm confirm that its sustained winds top out at 40 miles per minute ( 65 kilometers per hour ) , nudging the storm over the 39 - mph ( 63 - kph ) verge involve for tropic storm condition .
After a workweek - long lull , violent storm activity has dramatically ramped up in the Atlantic basin during the month of August , which has seen five named storm so far .
And there may be another named storm on the elbow room .
On Aug. 22 a satellite captured Tropical Strom Isaac and a neighboring burgeoning storm side-by-side.
Out of frame in the video , but nipping at Tropical Storm Isaac ’s heel , is a storm system cognise as Tropical Depression 10 . That tempest system is packing winds of 35 mph ( 55 kilometres per hour ) and is expected to become a tropical storm later today ( Aug. 22 ) .
If that happens , the galewill be describe Tropical Storm Joyce .
A electrostatic satellite image capture the two tempest systems — both Isaac and Depression 10 — side - by - side as they swirled over the Atlantic Ocean early today .
