Hurricane Harvey will be the first hurricane to make landfall in Texas in nine years. Check out these photos of the storm.
Credit: NASA/NOAA GOES Project
Hurricane Harvey is taking aim at Texas, with cities from Houston to Corpus Christi bracing for what’s expected to be a major storm with strong winds and heavy rain. Harvey became a hurricane on Aug. 24 and is expected to make landfall Friday night (Aug. 25) . Hurricane Harvey is a category 4 storm on the Saffir-Simpson scale, with winds near 130 miles per hour (215 km/h) . After making landfall, Harvey is «likely to meander near or just inland of the
middle Texas coast through the weekend, » according to the National Hurricane Center. This means the storm could dump 15 to 30 inches (38 to 76 centimeters) of rain over a widespread area of coastal and inland Texas. [Read more about how Hurricane Harvey formed]
This visible image of Hurricane Harvey taken from NOAA’s GOES East satellite on Aug. 25 at 10: 07 a.m. EDT (1407 GMT) clearly showed the storm’s eye as the storm nears landfall in the southeastern coast of Texas. [Hurricane Season 2017 Guide]
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