The hurricane reached category 3 status by midday on 25 august while it approached the middle texas coast and intensified into a category 4 hurricaneby 0000 utc 26 august.
Infrared satellite hurricane harvey.
This loop was created by combining infrared imagery from goes 16 s advanced baseline imager which is useful for determining the cloud features both day and night with imagery from the satellite s geostationary lightning mapper which observes total lightning both in.
Goes 16 captured this animation of hurricane harvey showing cloud cover and optical lightning emissions on august 25 26 2017.
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The infrared satellite imagery below shows storms to the northeast of the center of beta with dry peaceful skies to the west and south.
Satellite imagery of very devastating major hurricane harvey of the 2017 atlantic hurricane season all credit for the satellite imagrey belongs to the following.
Data from nasa s soil moisture active passive smap satellite have been used to create new surface flooding maps of southeast texas and the tennessee valley following hurricane harvey.
Became a hurricane later on 24 august and by that night a well defined eye appeared in infrared satellite pictures.