October 27, 2021 - Hurricane Rick
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The eighth hurricane of the 2021 Pacific Hurricane season formed over
the East Pacific Ocean on October 22 and headed towards southern
Mexico. On October 25, Hurricane Rick made landfall about 15 miles (25
km) east of Lázaro Cárdenas, an important port city in the state of
Michoacán. At the time Rick struck Mexico, it was carrying maximum
sustained winds of 105 mph (165 km/h), placing at a Category 2 storm on
the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale.
Once over land, interaction with the rugged mountainous terrain caused
Hurricane Rick to weaken quickly and dissipate to the northeast of the
landfall site. According to ReliefWeb, Rick and its remnants brought
heavy rain with thunderstorms and strong winds of parts of Michoacán,
Guerrero, Jalisco, Colima, Guanajuato, Zacatecas, Aguascalientes, San
Luis Potosí, Nayarit and Mexico States. More than 50 houses were
reported damaged in the Municipality of Tecpan de Galeana as of October
26, with 42 families evacuated. Power outages have been widespread
along the coastal regions of Guerrero State.
The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on board
NASA’s Aqua satellite acquired a true-color image of a weakened
Hurricane Rick on October 25. The weakly-defined center of the system
had moved well inland, and Rick had become asymmetric, indicating a
weaking storm.
Image Facts
Satellite: Aqua
Date Acquired: 10/25/2021
Resolutions: 1km (542.8 KB), 500m (1.8 MB), 250m (5.3 MB)
Bands Used: 1,4,3
Image Credit: MODIS Land Rapid Response Team, NASA GSFC
https://modis.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/individual.php?db_date=2021-10-27
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