Hurricane Humberto, now a Category 2 hurricane, is expected to strengthen further as it pulls away from the East Coast of the U.S. This GeoColor imagery with an overlay from the Geostationary Lightning Mapper was taken by GOES East on 9/16/19. More: https://go.usa.gov/xVEqS | NOAA Satellite and Information Service

3.9K views · 117 reactions | The 2022 hurricane season is officially underway. Learn how NOAA satellites monitored the first named storms in both the eastern Pacific and Atlantic basins⁠—Hurricane Agatha and Tropical Storm Alex⁠—in this week's #EarthFromOrbit: go.usa.gov/xJXZ4 | NOAA Satellite and Information Service | Facebook

NOAA's National Hurricane Center (NHC) says Tropical Storm Harvey (now a hurricane) -- shown here in this 1-minute visible imagery captured by GOES-16 earlier today -- is strengthening quickly and is forecast to become a major hurricane when it approaches the middle Texas coast. Harvey is located about 365 miles south-southeast of Corpus Christi, Texas, and moving toward the north-northwest near 10 miles per hour. Forecasters expect the storm to approach the middle Texas coast on Friday (8/25),