March 6, 2021 - Tropical Cyclone Marian

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   Tropical Cyclone Marian was falling apart as it spun over the Indian
   Ocean west of Australia on March 5, 2021. The Moderate Resolution
   Imaging spectroradiometer (MODIS) acquired this true-color image of the
   storm on that same day. While Marian retained a cloud-filled center,
   the storm’s battle against wind shear had rendered Marian strongly
   asymmetrical, with convective banding pushed to the north and west of
   the center.

   Marian formed as a tropical storm on February 26 and reached peak
   strength on February 28 when maximum sustained winds reached 115 mph
   (185 km/h) making it equivalent to a Category 3 storm on the
   Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale. Tropical Cyclone Marian weakened
   slightly but remained a Category-2 strength storm most of the time
   through March 2 before meeting with increasing wind shear and dropping
   to tropical-storm strength on March 3.
   At 1500 UTC (10:00 a.m. EST) on March 5, the Joint Typhoon Warning
   Center advised Tropical Cyclone Marian was located about 1,192 miles
   (1,918 km) west-southwest of Learmonth, Australia and carried sustained
   winds of 40 mph (64 km/h). The advisory stated that at that time, the
   core of the system had been completely sheared apart and was in a very
   unfavorable environment, with high vertical wind shear and low sea
   surface temperatures. They expect Marian to dissipate on March 6.
   Tropical Cyclone Marian poses no threat to land.

   Image Facts
   Satellite:  Terra
   Date Acquired: 3/5/2021
   Resolutions:  1km (2.1 MB),  500m (5 MB),
   Bands Used: 1,4,3
   Image Credit: MODIS Land Rapid Response Team, NASA GSFC



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