As Hurricane Laura was storming ashore in Louisiana with vicious winds of up to 150 miles per hour, the GOES-16 weather satellite had a sharp eye on it.
Thanks to high-resolution data returned by the satellite, we can watch in remarkable detail as the cyclone sliced into the coast and cut a path of destruction inland. You can get a sense of that from the static image above. But also check out this animation created by the Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies at the University of Wisconsin:
