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Watch a University of Wisconsin-Madison animation of infra-red satellite images showing how Hurricane Katrina grew in power as it crossed the Gulf of Mexico.

* Quicktime movie (36.9 MB)

(This animation is hosted on the web site of the Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, US ).

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