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.
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