After making landfall near Cameron, Louisiana, as a category 4 storm, Hurricane Laura continued to move northward over western Louisiana. The Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) on NOAA-20 acquired this image of Hurricane Laura at 2:50 a.m. Central Daylight Time on August 27, 2020, about two hours after the storm made landfall. Clouds are shown in infrared using brightness temperature data, which is useful for distinguishing cooler cloud structures from the warmer surface below. That data is overlaid on composite imagery of city lights from NASA’s Black Marble dataset.
References & Resources
- NASA (2020, August 27) LauraâAtlantic Ocean. Accessed August 26, 2020.
- NASA Global Precipitation Mission (2020, August 25) The 1-2 Punch: Hurricanes Marco and Laura and the US Gulf Coast. Accessed August 26, 2020.
- NASA Earth Observatory (2020) 2020 North Atlantic Hurricane Season.
- National Hurricane Center (2020, August 27) Laura. Accessed August 26, 2020.
- The Times-Picayune (2020, August 27) Hurricane Center. Accessed August 26, 2020.
- Yale Climate Connections (2020, August 27) Hurricane Laura intensifies; âcatastrophicâ wind and storm surge expected. Accessed August 26, 2020.
NASA Earth Observatory image by Joshua Stevens , using VIIRS data from NASA EOSDIS/LANCE and GIBS/Worldview and the Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership , and Black Marble data from NASA/GSFC . Caption by Adam Voiland .
