Images captured by the International Space Station (ISS) showed Hurricane Helene this Thursday (26) approaching the Gulf Coast of Florida, in the USA.
According to a statement on Platform X, the ISS flew over Helene at 2:25 pm (local time).
The storm became a major Category 4 hurricane on Thursday, with sustained winds of nearly 125 mph (209 km/h), according to the National Hurricane Center (NHC), and was expected to continue gaining strength.
Helene was expected to make landfall around 11pm (local time) in the Big Bend region of Florida, authorities said.
Watch video from the International Space Station:
Authorities pleaded with residents in the storm’s path to obey mandatory evacuation orders or face life-threatening conditions.
Helene’s surge — the wall of seawater pushed ashore by hurricane-force winds — could rise up to 20 feet (6.1 meters) in some spots, as high as a two-story house, said center director Michael Brennan , in a video briefing.
The hurricane was about 125 miles (209 km) west of Tampa, Florida, at 5 p.m. local time, the center said.
Heavy bands of rain were lashing parts of the Florida coast, and precipitation had already lashed Georgia, South Carolina, central and western North Carolina and parts of Tennessee.
Atlanta, hundreds of miles north of Florida’s Big Bend, was under a tropical storm warning.
After hitting the coast of Florida, Helene is expected to move more slowly over the Tennessee Valley this Friday (27) and Saturday, the NHC said.
(Produced by Vinaya K. and Eva Weininger)
This content was originally published in Hurricane Helene: space station shows what the phenomenon looks like from space on the CNN Brasil website.
Source: CNN Brasil
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