--- title: Here's What Tropical Storm Barry Looks Like From Space description: Tropical Storm Barry was photographed from space by a weather satellite as it makes its way toward Louisiana, potentially as a hurricane. canonical: https://time.com/5624888/tropical-storm-barry-space/ author: Alex Fitzpatrick article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2019-07-11T20:40:55.000Z article:modified_time: 2023-12-12T22:35:55.000Z article:section: Science og:title: Here's What Tropical Storm Barry Looks Like From Space og:description: It's expected to hit Louisiana as a hurricane og:url: https://time.com/5624888/tropical-storm-barry-space/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt8613fac89feebdfc/6989ffe1457a5238b1d627cf/tropical-storm-hurricane-barry-space.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1253 og:image:height: 705 og:image:alt: Tropical Storm Barry Space og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Here's What Tropical Storm Barry Looks Like From Space twitter:description: It's expected to hit Louisiana as a hurricane twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt8613fac89feebdfc/6989ffe1457a5238b1d627cf/tropical-storm-hurricane-barry-space.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Here's What Tropical Storm Barry Looks Like From Space > Sponsored content. 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NOAA  by [Alex Fitzpatrick](https://time.com/author/alex-fitzpatrick/)  ## Alex Fitzpatrick Updated: Dec 12, 2023 10:35 PM UTCPublished: Jul 11, 2019 8:40 PM UTC A severe storm that threatens to strike Louisiana as a hurricane officially became [Tropical Storm Barry](https://time.com/5624030/barry-hurricane-tropical-storm-louisiana/) on Thursday, the National Hurricane Center (NHC) confirmed. Tropical Storm Barry is currently gaining strength in the Gulf of Mexico about 90 miles south of the mouth of the Mississippi River, the NHC says, with maximum sustained winds of 40 miles per hour by Thursday afternoon. Barry is expected to become at least a Category 1 hurricane before it makes landfall, likely early Saturday morning, along the Louisiana coast. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)’s GOES-16 weather satellite captured these images of Tropical Storm Barry from space on Friday. While not yet a hurricane, Barry is beginning to take on the classic shape and spin of one:  NOAA Even though Tropical Storm Barry is set to make landfall as a Category 1 hurricane — the lowest category on the Saffir–Simpson scale — it still poses a significant threat to life and property. The [category system only takes into account a storm’s wind speed](https://time.com/5395912/hurricane-florence-is-exposing-major-problems-with-how-we-categorize-storms/), not its storm surge or other flooding risks. And Louisiana has already been struggling with severe flooding this week, a situation that any hurricane will exacerbate, regardless of its rating. “There is a danger of life-threatening storm surge inundation along the coast of southern and southeastern Louisiana where a Storm Surge Warning has been issued,” reads the NHC’s latest Tropical Storm Barry forecast discussion. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5624888/tropical-storm-barry-space/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5624888/tropical-storm-barry-space/"},"headline":"Here's What Tropical Storm Barry Looks Like From Space","datePublished":"2019-07-11T20:40:55.000Z","dateModified":"2023-12-12T22:35:55.000Z","description":"It's expected to hit Louisiana as a hurricane","url":"https://time.com/5624888/tropical-storm-barry-space/","keywords":["weather","Space","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt8613fac89feebdfc/6989ffe1457a5238b1d627cf/tropical-storm-hurricane-barry-space.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Alex Fitzpatrick","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/alex-fitzpatrick/"}],"articleSection":"Science","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt8613fac89feebdfc/6989ffe1457a5238b1d627cf/tropical-storm-hurricane-barry-space.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Tropical Storm Barry Space","caption":"Tropical Storm Barry Space","creditText":"NOAA","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/science/","name":"Science"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/weather/","name":"weather"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5624888/tropical-storm-barry-space/","name":"Here's What Tropical Storm Barry Looks Like From Space"}}]}] ```