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Hurricane Dorian has made landfall in North Carolina.
On September 4, the Geostationary Lightning Mapper captured this video of the hurricane.
NASA's Earth Science Disasters Program has used satellite imagery to create a damage assessment map of the Marsh Harbour area of the Bahamas.
This helps officials direct help and assistance where needed, but also helps to understand storm impact.
NOAA atmospheric scientist, James Kossin, reports that storms have been moving slower and stalling more over the past 70 years. The evidence that this is linked to climate change is not as definitive as the evidence that storms are getting stronger and generating more rain due to climate change, but it's something to be aware of.
Timothy Hall, a NASA Goddard Institute of of Space Studies scientist, wants people to consider more about a storm than just it's category - the more hazards were prepare for, such as stalling and the angle it hits the coast, the better off we'll be.
*Once again, Science is interesting and informative, fun to learn, but not always a fun topic - my heart goes out to those who have lost a loved one in this storm.
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