A satellite from NASA-NOAA’s Finnish nuclear power plant provided a night view of Hurricane Nana just after it began landing in Belize.

At 11pm EDT on Sept. 2, Nana was confirmed as a Class 1 hurricane on the wind scale of Hurricane Saffir-Simpson. Its maximum continuous wind was close to 75 mph (120 km / h). At the time, it was only 60 miles (95 km) southeast of Belize City, Belize. Hurricane Nana landed off the coast of Belize between Dangriga and Placencia on September 3 at 2:00 a.m. EDT. The maximum wind speed is close to 120 km / h. At 5:00 a.m. EDT, the storm had subsided into a tropical storm as it continued to move inland.

NASA night view of Nana landing site

The VIIRS (Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite) satellite from NASA-NOAA’s Finnish nuclear power plant passed the Caribbean on the night of September 3 at 3.25 am EDT (0725 UTC) and took a night picture of Hurricane Nana just after it landed south. Belize. Thunderstorms wrapped around the center of the storm and extended into the Caribbean Sea. At NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., The images were created using NASA’s Worldview app.

Warnings and clocks on September 3rd

On 3 September, the NOAA National Hurricane Center (NHC) ruled that a tropical storm warning was in place off the Caribbean coast in Guatemala, Isla Roatan and the Bay of Honduras. A tropical storm guard is in place on the north coast of Honduras west of Punta Patuca to the Guatemalan border.

The state of tropical storm Nana on September 3rd

On September 3, at 8 a.m. EDT (1200 UTC), the center of the tropical storm Nana was located near latitude 16.6 north and longitude 89.7 west. Nana is moving west-southwest near 15 mph (24 km / h), and this general motion is expected to continue today as driving speeds decrease. The maximum continuous wind speed has dropped to close to 95 km / h and the gusts are higher. The estimated minimum mean pressure is 1000 millibars.

Prediction of Nana’s fate

On the forecast track, Nana will continue to move inland over Guatemala and the extreme southeast of Mexico tonight and tonight. A rapid deterioration is forecast today and tonight, and Nana is likely to become a region of residual low pressures on Friday, September 4th.

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Author: Rob Gutro

NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center