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See Hurricane Irma Crackle with Lightning in Electrifying Satellite Video
By Mike Wall, Space.com Senior Writer | September 8, 2017 06:15pm ET
Hurricane Irma looks like a gigantic electrified beast in an amazing new video captured by an Earth-observing satellite.
The video, which is composed of imagery taken by the GOES-16 satellite, shows countless lightning storms crackling within Hurricane Irma day and night as the monster storm churns its way toward Florida.
The movie condenses more than 80 hours of observations — beginning Monday (Sept. 4) at about 8 a.m. EDT (1200 GMT) — into 49 jaw-dropping seconds. [Hurricane Irma in Photos: Satellite Views of a Monster Storm]
"Of interest in this loop is the lightning within Hurricane Irma itself, particularly around the eye of the storm," officials with the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, which operates GOES-16 along with NASA, said in a description of the video.
- video at link -
https://www.space.com/38099-hurricane-irma-lightning-satellite-video.html?utm_source=notification
