A bird's-eye view of a hurricane from 254 miles up
In short: Watch the International Space Station capture high-altitude footage of Hurricane Sandy as it approached the New Jersey coastline in 2012. This perspective offers a unique look at the scale of a Category 1 storm moving toward landfall.
Captured on October 29, 2012, at 11:16 a.m. Eastern time, these images show Hurricane Sandy from an altitude of 254 statute miles. At the moment of the flyover, the storm was positioned 260 miles south-southeast of New York City.
The footage documents the hurricane moving north-northwest at 18 miles per hour with winds reaching 90 miles per hour. The data highlights the significant threat of storm surge and flooding across the eastern seaboard as the system transitioned toward a post-tropical cyclone.
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