Infrared Satellite Hurricane Harvey

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Infrared satellite 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. It is a perfect illustration of a less than healthy system. 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. Became a hurricane later on 24 august and by that night a well defined eye appeared in infrared satellite pictures.

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. The infrared satellite imagery below shows storms to the northeast of the center of beta with dry peaceful skies to the west and south. Goes 16 captured this animation of hurricane harvey showing cloud cover and optical lightning emissions on august 25 26 2017.