As the Florida Panhandle region braced for Hurricane Michael, some eagle-eyed weather watchers noticed what looks like a skull in one of the satellite images of the storm.
A photo of the image was posted to Twitter by WZVN meteorologist Jim Dickey, USA Today reported.
#Michael has that 'skull' appearance on IR satellite this morning as the eye is beginning to clear out through the CDO. pic.twitter.com/F5lZxfspK0
— Jim Dickey (@WxDickey) October 9, 2018
Is it just us or does the center of Hurricane #Michael look like a SKULL? Meteorologist @WxDickey pointed this out. #hurricanemichael
— AccuWeather (@accuweather) October 9, 2018
This happened previously with Hurricane Matthew in 2016: https://t.co/WrbfPvmzMk pic.twitter.com/zft8Bkbfzy
CDO means "central dense overcast" or the thunderstorm clouds around the hurricane's eye.
Hurricane Matthew had a similar image just over two years ago on Oct. 6, 2017, as the storm passed over Haiti, USA Today reported.
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