The last I recall hearing about it was that it was a fake. And with the calm seas ahead of it, it does look fake. I just saw this.
Comments: This image began circulating via email on Wednesday, Sept. 17, 2003 as Hurricane Isabel bore down on the eastern seaboard of the United States. It seems to have been intentionally mislabeled. According to a Web page of the National Weather Service, the photo, credited to Steve Todd, actually documents a tropical cyclone sighted in the Pacific Ocean six months ago named "Graham."
Update: After a reader notified me that the above picture had "mysteriously" disappeared from the National Weather Service site, I wrote to the Webmaster, Clinton Rocky, who informed me it had been removed because of copyright concerns. He also confirmed that the photo, which some skeptics have labeled a fake, is real and legitimate, documenting "a supercell thunderstorm rotating around the decaying part of Cyclone Graham, which was off the northwest coast of Australia this past February."
http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/b ... _photo.htm
