The Two Tails of Hurricane Isaac
May 6, 2013
SESDA 3 Scientists contribute to two feature articles on the effects of Hurricane Isaac on the continental US. Prior to the incursion of “Superstorm Sandy” on the East Coast of the United States in October 2012, another hurricane – Isaac – captured headlines and posed a serious danger to the northern coast of the Gulf of Mexico in September. Isaac threatened the same region that had been devastated by Hurricane Katrina in 2005, exactly seven years earlier. Isaac made landfall as a Category 1 hurricane almost exactly seven years after Category 3 Katrina. Isaac actually made two official landfalls – first on Plaquemines Parish, the arm of land that extends southward from New Orleans as part of the Mississippi River delta, on August 28, and then another landfall on the southern Gulf Coast of Louisiana on the morning of August 29.
To read more about this natural disaster please see the links below.
http://disc.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/featured-items/two_tails_hurricane_isaac_part_1
http://disc.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/featured-items/two_tails_hurricane_Isaac_part_2
