HURRICANE IDALIA IS SEEN FROM THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION AFTER LANDFALL

HURRICANE IDALIA IS SEEN FROM THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION AFTER LANDFALL

External cameras on the International Space Station captured views of Hurricane Idalia at 10:35 a.m.

EDT on Wednesday, Aug.

30, 2023, as the station flew 260 miles overhead.

Idalia made landfall just before 8 a.m.

Near Keaton Beach, Florida, along the state’s Big Bend region as a Category 3 storm packing winds of 125 miles an hour.

Idalia had peaked to a Category 4 storm with 130 mile per hour winds prior to landfall.

The system is moving to the north-northeast at 18 miles an hour, heading for the southeast United States and then out over the Atlantic Ocean, according to the National Hurricane Center.