Infrared Satellite Hurricane Harvey
It is a perfect illustration of a less than healthy system.
Infrared satellite hurricane harvey. The hurricane reached category 3 status by midday on 25 august while it approached the middle texas coast and intensified into a category 4 hurricaneby 0000 utc 26 august. Data from nasa s soil moisture active passive smap satellite have been used to create new surface flooding maps of southeast texas and the tennessee valley following hurricane harvey. Satellite imagery of very devastating major hurricane harvey of the 2017 atlantic hurricane season all credit for the satellite imagrey belongs to the following. Goes 16 captured this animation of hurricane harvey showing cloud cover and optical lightning emissions on august 25 26 2017.
Cooperative institute for. It is tied with 2005 s hurricane katrina as the costliest tropical cyclone on record inflicting 125 billion 2017 usd in damage primarily from catastrophic rainfall triggered flooding in the houston metropolitan area and southeast. This loop was created by combining infrared imagery from goes 16 s advanced baseline imager which is useful for determining the cloud features both day and night with imagery from the satellite s geostationary lightning mapper which observes total lightning both in.