• MODIS Pic of the Day 12 November 2022

    From Dan Richter@1:317/3 to All on Sat Nov 12 11:00:38 2022
    November 12, 2022 - Nicole Soaks the Eastern United States

    Nicole
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    On November 10, 2022, the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer
    (MODIS) on board NASA’s Aqua satellite acquired a true-color image of
    Tropical Storm Nicole moving northward across the United States. Nicole
    was a remarkably large storm, with tropical-storm-force winds extending
    outwards up to 345 miles (555 km) from the center, especially to the
    northeast. This image shows convective bands and clouds stretching from
    southern Florida to Maryland and West Virginia. The a cloud-filled
    center of Nicole sits near Tampa on Florida’s west coast.

    After making landfall near Vero Beach on Florida’s East Coast as a
    Category 1 hurricane with maximum sustained winds of 75 mph (121 km/h),
    the storm weakened as it crossed the state. According to the National
    Hurricane Center, near the time this image was acquired, Nicole had
    become a tropical storm and was carrying maximum sustained winds of 45
    mph (70 km/h). It was located about 45 miles (70 km) north of Tampa,
    Florida and about 165 miles (265 km) southeast of Tallahassee, Florida
    and was moving northwest. By 10:00 p.m. EST on November 10, Nicole had
    further weakened to become a tropical depression with maximum sustained
    winds of 35 mph (55 mph). However, it remained a super-soaking storm as
    it crossed the U.S. Southeast and Mid-Atlantic states.

    According to meteorologist Jeff Masters, writing for Yale Climate
    Connections, “ Nicole was just the fourth hurricane on record to hit
    the contiguous U.S. after October, and the second-latest landfalling
    hurricane on record. Only Hurricane Kate in 1985, which hit the Florida
    Panhandle as a category 2 storm with 100 mph winds on November 21, made
    landfall later in the season.”

    Nicole brought a devastating storm surge which caused severe beach
    erosion to parts of Florida, especially Volusia County where beachfront
    homes were destroyed as the surge undercut the sand beneath the houses
    and parts of the roadway crumbled. Coastal flooding occurred as far
    north as Charleston, South Carolina, including record high water levels
    of 3.58 feet above high tide measured at Jacksonville, Florida. The
    storm was also responsible for the deaths of five people in Florida.

    Image Facts
    Satellite: Aqua
    Date Acquired: 11/10/2022
    Resolutions: 1km (569.2 KB), 500m (1.9 MB),
    Bands Used: 1,4,3
    Image Credit: MODIS Land Rapid Response Team, NASA GSFC



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