Infrared Satellite Hurricane Harvey

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.

Infrared satellite hurricane harvey. Goes 16 captured this animation of hurricane harvey showing cloud cover and optical lightning emissions on august 25 26 2017. 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. Satellite imagery of very devastating major hurricane harvey of the 2017 atlantic hurricane season all credit for the satellite imagrey belongs to the following. 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.

Became a hurricane later on 24 august and by that night a well defined eye appeared in infrared satellite pictures. 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. Hurricane harvey was a devastating category 4 hurricane that made landfall on texas and louisiana in august 2017 causing catastrophic flooding and many deaths.