Hurricane Jimena headed toward the Baja Peninsula as a Category 4 hurricane on August 30, 2009. The storm had weakened by September 3, 2009, but poured heavy rain on Mexico.
These photo-like and radar images together show the structure of the Category 1 Hurricane Jimena shortly after it make landfall over Baja California on September 2, 2009.
Powerful Hurricane Jimena has well-defined bands of clouds that circle a distinctive eye in this photo-like image from September 1, 2009. The outer bands of the storm were already over the southern tip of Baja California.
Hurricane Jimena was heading west-northwest toward Mexico’s Baja Peninsula on August 30, 2009, when the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Aqua satellite captured this image.