Satellite View Of Hurricane Sally

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Satellite view of hurricane sally.

Sally become the seventh hurricane of the 2020 atlantic season. View metadata for the hurricane sally. 17 2020 in gulf shores alabama joe raedle getty images. A view of hurricane sally from nasa s terra satellite as.

Hurricane sally gouged three breaches into the eastern tip of perdido key separating the isolated stretch of the barrier island into three small islands. The dot indicating the forecast center location will be black if the cyclone is forecast to be tropical and will be white with a black outline if the cyclone is forecast to be extratropical. Nasa s aqua satellite and the nasa noaa suomi npp satellite provided views of the strength extent and rainfall potential as hurricane sally was making landfall during the morning hours of sept. A hurricane track will only appear if there is an active storm in the atlantic or eastern pacific regions.

The day after sally s landfall damage assessments are slowly getting underway across southern alabama and the florida panhandle following the storm s prolific deluge. The black line when selected and dots show the national hurricane center nhc forecast track of the center at the times indicated. Noaa has published a map with satellite images taken after hurricane sally came ashore on the alabama gulf coast. The national hurricane center is also monitoring three systems that may or may not develop into tropical storms over the next few days.

With sally still strengthening there is a chance that it could become a category 3 before landfall which is the threshold to be considered a major hurricane according to accuweather. Hurricane sally is now a category 2 with. Launch web map in new window this tracker shows the current view from our goes east and goes west satellites. About this imagery was acquired by the noaa remote sensing division to support noaa homeland security and emergency response requirements.

The tracker also allows users to go back in time and view and interact with the satellite imagery from the past hurricanes this year. The eye passed over gulf shores and orange beach alabama with some of the highest winds from fort morgan alabama to perdido key florida.