Hurricane Matthew, satellite image


Satellite image of Hurricane Matthew over Haiti on the 4th of October 2016. Matthew reached Haiti as a Category 4 Hurricane with winds of 241 kilometres per hour. The hurricane was the strongest storm to hit Haiti in over 50 years, causing catastrophic damage and loss of life. Data obtained by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA's Terra satellite.


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