Need Rita Sat Pics over Southeast Texas

[wxman57]

Hi all. I'm looking for satellite pictures of Rita as it moved ashore and passed through southeast and east Texas. I figure some of you would probably remember a link to archived satellite imagery. Appreciate any help.

[RattleMan]

Would pictures from NRL do?

http://www.nrlmry.navy.mil/archdat/trop ... /18L.RITA/

[BayouVenteux]

Hi all. I'm looking for satellite pictures of Rita as it moved ashore and passed through southeast and east Texas. I figure some of you would probably remember a link to archived satellite imagery. Appreciate any help.

Hope these'll help...

The NOAA NESDIS page for Rita images...

http://www.nnvl.noaa.gov/cgi-bin/index.cgi?page=products&category=Year%202005%20Storm%20Events&event=Hurricane%20Rita

and some links to misc. single images...

http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/134607main_rita-09252005-516px.jpg

http://www.osei.noaa.gov/Events/Tropical/Gulf_Mexico/2005/TRCRita267_G12.jpg

http://www1.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/images/hurr-rita-20050924-1245-g12vs.jpg

[whereverwx]

Here's a nice loop of Rita making landfall:

http://www1.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/imag ... irloop.gif

[wxman57]

Ok, I think I have all I need now. Thanks, everyone. I figured I'd have something by morning. Only took about an hour.

[hurricanetrack]

You know, looking over the NRL pics, it looks like Rita became more convective up to and during landfall. I have not noticed that before. The radar shows a different story with a weakening hurricane. But- looking at the series of NRL color IR pics, it clearly shows reds and then those yellows/golds coming in all around the core during landfall. I was under the NW eyewall and it was pretty insane there in Port Arthur- but not like what one would think it was by looking at the satellite photos. Any thoughts on this?

[Jim Cantore]

Radar to me suggests an eyewall replacement cycle.

[Derek Ortt]

it was horribly sheared at landfall, so FL winds likely did not make it to the surface

[southerngale]

You know, looking over the NRL pics, it looks like Rita became more convective up to and during landfall. I have not noticed that before. The radar shows a different story with a weakening hurricane. But- looking at the series of NRL color IR pics, it clearly shows reds and then those yellows/golds coming in all around the core during landfall. I was under the NW eyewall and it was pretty insane there in Port Arthur- but not like what one would think it was by looking at the satellite photos. Any thoughts on this?

The only hurricane experience I have to compare Rita to was a Cat.1 Bonnie in 1986, but I always thought it was worse than what it appeared like on sat. and what most seemed to think. I was way up in Jasper when Rita hit and it was pretty insane even there, much worse than it was during Bonnie and I was a lot closer to the coast during Bonnie. Anyway, the damage and now the ongoing recovery in Port Arthur tells the story of the insanity.