Medicane Daniel, a rare Mediterranean storm, wreaked havoc on the usually arid north African nation of Libya.
Flooding caused by burst dams near the Libyan city of Derna that failed to contain water from torrential rains brought by Medicane Daniel."These two images, acquired by one of the Copernicus Sentinel-2 satellites on 2 and 12 September, show the Libyan desert before and after the aftermath of Storm Daniel," the European environment-monitoring program Copernicus, which operates the Sentinel satellites, said.
Night-time images obtained by U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration spacecraft and processed by British Earth-observation researcher Simon Proud show the extent of power blackouts following the storm, in comparison with images taken before Daniel's passage. "In the aftermath of the horrific flooding in Libya, satellites are helping to map the scale of the human and physical destruction," Proud said, sharing the images."These two 'night lights' images from @NOAASatellites VIIRS [Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite] sensor show far fewer lights after the bad weather hit. Many areas without power now."
On the left, a night-time image of Libyan coast before the passage of Medicane Daniel. On the right, an image of the same region after the storm's passage.
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