Video/Photo: Hurricane Katia From Space

External cameras aboard the International Space Station captured new video of Hurricane Katia as it moved northwest across the western Atlantic north of Puerto Rico at 10:35am EDT today [Sept.6]. Katia has strengthened into a major Category 3 hurricane packing winds of 125 miles an hour.

Katia was a tropical storm gathering energy over the Atlantic Ocean when one of the Expedition 28 crew took the photo below on August 31st from aboard the International Space Station. The picture, taken with a 12-mm focal length, was captured at 14:09:01 GMT. Later in the day Katia was upgraded to hurricane status. Two Russian spacecraft — a Progress and a Soyuz –can be seen parked at the orbital outpost on the left side of the frame.

The Bermuda Weather Service [BWS] issued a Tropical Storm Watch at 11:30am this morning, and the Government issued an advisory this afternoon.

At 12pm today, the BWS said Katia’s closest point of approach to Bermuda within 72 hrs is forecast to be 256 nm to the west south-west at 4pm tomorrow [Sept. 7].

- Photo/video courtesy of NASA

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