While category 5 Hurricane Patricia weakened rapidly after hitting the rugged terrain along Mexico’s Pacific coast, remnants of the storm combined with other non tropical weather systems already present over the Gulf of Mexico. The pre-existing systems are responsable for heavy downpours and widespread flooding in Texas and Louisiana. At 3:20 am Central Time (0820 Universal Time) on October 26, 2015, the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) on the Suomi NPP satellite captured this image of the resulting weather system over the Gulf of Mexico and the southeastern United States. The storm was captured by a special “day-night band,” which detects light in a range of wavelengths from green to near-infrared and uses filtering techniques to observe dim signals such as auroras, airglow, gas flares, city lights, fires, and reflected moonlight. In this case, cloud tops were lit by the nearly full Moon (full occurs on October 27). Some city lights in Texas, Arkansas, and Louisiana are visible through the clouds.