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Hurricane Ida Batters Louisiana

Preliminary reports suggest it is the fifth-strongest storm ever to make landfall in the continental U.S.


NASA Earth Observatory images and video by Joshua Stevens, using VIIRS day-night band data from the Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership, GEOS-5 data from the Global Modeling and Assimilation Office at NASA GSFC, and power outage data courtesy of PowerOutage.us. Story by Michael Carlowicz.

Published August 30, 2021
Data acquired August 30, 2021

Sources:
In situ Measurement
Model
Suomi NPP > VIIRS