VIDEO: Hurricane Lester As Seen From International Space Station
NASA released two videos of Hurricane Lester shot from the International Space Station orbiting聽257 miles above Earth.
NASA released stunning videos shot by the International Space Station this week that showed聽 creeping toward Hawaii.
Cameras mounted outside the captured the images of Lester among three hurricanes that were sweeping聽across the Pacific and Atlantic oceans on Tuesday.
One of the other cyclones seen in the videos, Hurricane Madeline, ended up veering away from聽Hawaii. It had weakened to a tropical storm by Wednesday but still brought wind gusts up to 60 mph and rain to parts of the islands.
NASA released two videos from the International Space Station聽as it orbited 257 miles above Earth.聽One video, lasting less than a minute, of when the hurricanes were in view of the space station. Of the three tropical systems, Lester was the clearest in聽view of the station.
The , running almost 11 minutes, was the same footage but shown at regular聽speed as the space station聽flew聽above each storm system.
Since the videos were released, Hurricane Lester has continued its path toward Hawaii. On Thursday, the National Weather Service in Honolulu for the Big Island and Maui County. The storm is predicted聽to reach the area on Friday night and could bring聽damaging wind, heavy rain, high surf and flooding during Labor Day weekend.
NASA also of Hurricane Lester on Thursday that was captured by the climate- and weather-tracking on Wednesday.
The on Thursday that even though Hurricane Lester’s current direction shows it traveling slightly northeast of the islands, “it would take only a small leftward shift in the track to directly and profoundly affect the state.”
