As Hurricane Harvey churn forrader toward southwest Texas , astronaut on the International Space Station get a glance of the monster cyclone from a good view distance of 250 mil above the Earth . frankly , you do n’t need to get much close .
The footage was captured on August 24th at 6:15 PM Eastern Time , as tender waters and favourable wind instrument condition were helping the storm gather strength over the Gulf . Harvey officially achieved hurricane condition after a round of speedy intensification yesterday afternoon that the National Hurricane Center described as “ astounding . ”
NASA cosmonaut Randy Bresnik also tweeted some photos of the tempest taken from the ISS last dark , with words of solidarity for Texans in its path .
God Bless Texas , may you weather the storm as you always have!pic.twitter.com/8qXHXc8YMY
— Randy Bresnik ( @AstroKomrade)August 24 , 2017
Meanwhile , NOAA ’s Hurricane Hunters put up a torturous time - lapse incorporate footage from a escape through the centre of the tempest yesterday evening .
Timelapse of WP-3D Orion#NOAA42flying a passing game through the eye of#HurricaneHarveyfrom west to east . Advisories athttps://t.co/3phpgKMZaSpic.twitter.com/b5lyqqkW9x
— NOAA Aircraft Operations Center ( @NOAA_HurrHunter)August 24 , 2017
Harvey is now centered135 milessoutheast of Corpus Christi , fit in to a late update from the National Hurricane Center . While it is n’t predicted to make landfall until later tonight or early tomorrow morning time , tropical storm conditions are expected to reach resident of the middle and upper Texas coast by afterward this morning . Harvey is expected to be a major ( Category 3 + ) hurricane at landfall , which would make it thefirst major hurricane landfall in the US since Hurricane Wilma in 2005 .
A prolificfifteen to 25 inchesof rainfall is predicted top drop up and down the cost , with isolated accumulation totals of up to 35 in . The NHC warns of “ sprightliness - imperil ” coastal inundation from the storm surge , and press residents to complete preparation to protect themselves and their holding this forenoon . Widespread evacuation orderswere issued along Texas ’s Gulf Coast yesterday .
As if the menace to coastal residents was n’t big enough , Hurricane Harvey ’s track could also bring it dangerously closelipped to the enormous rock oil refinery encircling Galveston Bay . As Emily Atkin writes in the New Republic , Harveyhas the potential difference to become a major contamination disaster .
We ’ll be keeping a skinny centre on the violent storm , and bringing you updates throughout the day as they rebel .
[ NASAh / tWashington Post ]
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