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A Dangerous Storm Nears the Gulf Coast

Hurricane Laura is poised to cause an unusually large and damaging storm surge.

This image originally appeared in the NASA Earth Observatory story A Dangerous Storm Nears the Gulf Coast.

NASA Earth Observatory images by Joshua Stevens, using MODIS and VIIRS data from NASA EOSDIS/LANCE and GIBS/Worldview, the Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS), Black Marble data from NASA/GSFC, and data from the Multiscale Ultrahigh Resolution (MUR) project. Story by Adam Voiland.

Published August 26, 2020
Data acquired August 26, 2020