• MODIS Pic of the Day 12 March 2022

    From Dan Richter@1:317/3 to All on Sat Mar 12 11:00:12 2022
    March 12, 2022 - Tropical Cyclone Gombe over Mozambique

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    After soaking northern Madagascar earlier in the week, Tropical Cyclone
    Gombe made landfall over the central Nampula Province on March 11,
    2022. As the storm came ashore, it carried maximum sustained winds of
    about 190 km/h (118 mph), which places it as a Category 3 storm on the
    Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale. There were two fatalities in
    Madagascar, according to ReliefWeb. At least seven deaths have been
    reported in Madagascar as of the evening of March 11.

    Once Gombe crossed the coast, it moved inland and quickly weakened,
    becoming a tropical depression. Tropical depressions are cyclones with
    maximum sustained winds of 38 mph (61 km/h). While wind speeds have
    dropped precipitously, the storm is still carrying torrential rains,
    and may cause flooding both in Mozambique and Malawi.

    The Joint Typhoon Warning Center (JTWC) expects Gombe to continue to
    unravel as it moves over land and should dissipate by March 12. The
    remnant of the system will turn to the south and then southeastward
    over the next two days then re-enter the Mozambique Channel as a weak
    tropical depression in the next few days. The Moderate Resolution
    Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on board NASA’s Terra satellite
    acquired a true-color image of Tropical Cyclone Gombe shortly after
    landfall. At that time, the storm retained a cloud-filled center and
    convective bands winding tightly into the center. Rain bands from Gombe
    stretched over half of the Mozambique Channel and inland to Lake
    Malawi, a distance of more than 1,000 km (620 miles).

    Image Facts
    Satellite: Terra
    Date Acquired: 3/11/2022
    Resolutions: 1km (448.7 KB), 500m (1.4 MB), 250m (4.3 MB)
    Bands Used: 1,4,3
    Image Credit: MODIS Land Rapid Response Team, NASA GSFC



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