Satellites have spotted from space Hurricane Sally is barreling towards land as five other storms swirl on Earth’s surface.
With data from NASA’s Aqua satellite, on September 14, the Tropical Storm Sally was reclassified as a hurricane. The hurricane has moved over the north-central Gulf of Mexico on September 15. It is expected to continue moving towards Louisiana and make landfall sometime on September 16, either during the afternoon or this evening.
According to NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration), as of 8 p.m. EDT (24:00 GMT) Monday, Sally was a Category 2 storm, had sustained winds of 100 mph (161 kph), and was moving at 5 mph (8 kph).
Satellites have spotted from space Hurricane Sally is barreling towards land as five other storms swirl on Earth’s surface.
The storm is tracked on NASA’s Aqua Satellite with an Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) instrument. Sally, Paulette, Rene, Teddy, and Vicky are in the Atlantic Ocean. Storm Karina is in the Pacific Ocean.
The NOAA’s GOES-East orbits more than 35,405 kilometers above Earth, keeping an eye on Africa extending to North America, Mexico, Central, and South America, the Caribbean, and the Atlantic Ocean. It also tracks the storms.
In addition, various satellites are monitoring the array of storms along with the Suomi NPP satellite tv for pc from NASA-NOAA, which screens the atmosphere using its Seen Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS). VIIRS saw Hurricane Paulette at night on Monday (1:30 am EDT and 05:30 GMT), displaying a clear image of the eye of the storm. According to NASA, at the time, Paulette’s huge eye was approaching Bermuda Island, for which there is an impact warning of a hurricane.
Yesterday another storm progressed in the Atlantic as Vicky intensified Tropical Depression into Tropical Storm. Aqua accompanied the storm, showing that the coldest cloud top temperatures in the system were as low as (or lower than) 63 degrees Fahrenheit (- 53 degrees Celsius) in its centers as of Sunday (September 13). And NASA says such cold temperatures may indicate the potential of the storm to produce heavy rains.
Simply final month, Jim Yoe, a scientist with NOAA’s Nationwide Climate Service, told Space.com that NOAA was predicting this to be “an above common hurricane season.” The Atlantic hurricane season, which stretches from June 1 to Nov. 30, is at present in full swing.