Hurricane Delta Aims for the U.S. Gulf Coast

After making landfall on the Yucatan Peninsula, the category 2 storm was strengthening over warm waters.

NASA Earth Observatory images by Lauren Dauphin, using MODIS data from NASA EOSDIS/LANCE and GIBS/Worldview, VIIRS data from NASA EOSDIS/LANCE and GIBS/Worldview and the Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership, sea surface temperature data from the Multiscale Ultrahigh Resolution (MUR) project, and storm track information from Weather Underground. Story by Kasha Patel.

Published October 8, 2020
Data acquired October 8, 2020

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Aqua > AMSR-E

GCOM-W1 > AMSR-2

Model

NOAA-15 POES > AVHRR

NOAA-18 POES

NOAA-19 POES > AVHRR

Suomi NPP > VIIRS

Terra > MODIS