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Tuesday, October 7, 2008

The ten-mile-wide hurricane?

Tropical Storm Marco has formed in the Bay of Campeche, and may become a hurricane before hitting Mexico around midday today. But Marco is teeny tiny, with a tropical-storm wind field that's literally ten miles wide. The NHC says it may be the smallest tropical cyclone in recorded history. Take a look at the wind-field map:



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