October 18, 2009
Hurricane Rick was a Category 5 storm on October 18, 2009, near the time when the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Terra satellite captured this natural-color image. Several hundred kilometers southwest of Baja California, the storm had winds of 160 miles per hour (260 kilometers per hour), down from an estimated 180 mph (290 km/h) the previous evening at 8:00 p.m. As of 8:00 a.m. PDT on October 19, Rick was predicted to move in a northeastward arc, perhaps grazing Cabo San Lucas on the tip of the peninsula before making landfall as a weakened storm in Mexico between Wednesday and Thursday.
References & Resources
- National Hurricane Center. (2009, October 19). Hurricane Rick: Coastal Watches/Warnings and 3-Day Track Forecast Cone. Accessed October 19, 2009.
- National Hurricane Center. (2009, October 18). Hurricane Rick Advisory Number 14ââ¬Â¦Corrected. Accessed October 19, 2009.
NASA image by Jeff Schmaltz, MODIS Rapid Response Team. Caption by Rebecca Lindsey, NASA Earth Observatory.
