Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Image:Katrina Arrival Animation.ogv

Original - Hurricane Katrina, the costliest hurricane in the history of the United States and also one of the five deadliest, makes landfall in Louisiana on August 29, 2005.
Reason
This animation is encyclopedic, informative, and of NASA quality.
Articles this image appears in
Meteorological history of Hurricane Katrina
Creator
NASA-GSFC, data from NOAA GOES