Space: Time-lapse ISS footage shows eye of Super Typhoon Soudelor

[yuiyoshida]

Typhoon Soudelor, which devastated the Pacific Island of Saipan last weekend, was bearing down on Taiwan Friday and was expected to make landfall Saturday. The timelapse footage above taken from the International Space Station shows the massive size of the storm.

Thankfully, Soudelor has weakened this week. It was downgraded from its super typhoon status Wednesday, after winds peaked 180mph and gusts to 220mph Monday.

(SEE MORE: Super Typhoon Soudelor: The year’s biggest storm as seen from space)

Despite the downgrade, Soudelor is the biggest storm to hit Taiwan in two years. School classes and flights were cancelled across the country Friday as the typhoon claimed its first victims.

http://asiancorrespondent.com/134656/watch-amazing-time-lapse-footage-of-typhoon-soudelor-taken-from-iss/

[Uncle Joe]

1. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, yuiyoshida.

[PJMcK]

2. Satellite photography

Image how different the world was before we had satellites! Aside from the communications applications, the photography alone has been incredible in helping us understand our planet. The objective view that we have from space gives us so much more knowledge than we can gain by earth observations.

Before weather satellites, the ground-based forecasting was even more inaccurate than today, (insert weatherman jokes here!). By viewing the weather patterns from above, countless lives and property have been saved because of the ability to watch weather patterns develop in nearly real-time.

This is a beautiful and frightening video considering the size of this storm. Thanks, yuiyoshida!