NASA-NOAA’s Suomi NPP satellite passed over the Caribbean Sea over night on September 3 at 3: 25 a.m. EDT (0725 UTC) and caught a nighttime picture of Hurricane Nana simply after it made landfall in southern Belize. Credit: NASA Worldview, Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS)
NASA-NOAA’s Suomi NPP satellite supplied a nighttime take a look at Hurricane Nana simply after it started making landfall in Belize.
At 11 p.m. EDT on September 2, Nana enhanced to a Category 1 cyclone on the Saffir-Simpson cyclone wind scale. It had optimal continual winds near 75 miles per hour (120 kph). At the time, it was simply 60 miles (95 km) southeast of Belize City, Belize. At 2 a.m. EDT on September 3, Hurricane Nana made landfall on the coast of Belize in between Dangriga and Placencia with optimum sustained winds near 75 miles per hour (120 kph). By 5 a.m. EDT, the storm had actually damaged to a hurricane as it continued to move inland.
NASA’s Night-Time View of Nana’s Landfall
The Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) instrument aboard NASA-NOAA’s Suomi NPP satellite passed the Caribbean Sea over night on September 3 at 3: 25 a.m. EDT (0725 UTC) and caught a nighttime picture of Hurricane Nana simply after making landfall in southern Belize. Bands of thunderstorms twisted around the storm’s center and extended into the Caribbean Sea. At NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., the images was produced utilizing the NASA Worldview application.
Warnings and Watches on September 3
NOAA’s National Hurricane Center (NHC) kept in mind on September 3 that a Tropical Storm Warning is in result for the Caribbean Sea coast of Guatemala, Isla Roatan and the Bay Islands of Honduras. A Tropical Storm Watch is in result for the northern coast of Honduras from Punta Patuca westward to the Guatemala border.
Tropical Storm Nana’s Status on September 3
At 8 a.m. EDT (1200 UTC) on September 3, the center of Tropical Storm Nana lay near latitude 16.6 north, longitude 89.7 west. Nana is approaching the west-southwest near 15 miles per hour (24 kph), and this basic movement is anticipated to continue through today with some reduction in forward speed. Maximum continual winds have actually reduced to near 60 miles per hour (95 kph) with greater gusts. The approximated minimum main pressure is 1000 millibars.
Nana’s Fated Forecast
On the projection track, Nana will continue to move inland over Guatemala and severe southeastern Mexico today and tonight. Rapid weakening is anticipated today and tonight, and Nana will likely end up being a remnant low-pressure location on Friday, September 4.
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