Sally Slowly Approaches the Gulf Coast

Sally Slowly Approaches the Gulf Coast

On September 15, 2020, the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Terra satellite captured this midday image as the slow-moving, category 2 hurricane inched closer to the U.S. Gulf Coast. The National Hurricane Center warned of life-threatening flash floods and storm surges through September 16. Sally could drop 10-20 inches (25-50 centimeters) of rain on parts of the Gulf Coast between Mississippi and the Florida panhandle.

NASA Earth Observatory image by Lauren Dauphin, using MODIS data from NASA EOSDIS/LANCE and GIBS/Worldview. Caption by Kasha Patel.

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