The above is the latest time-lapse video of Hurricane Irene’s formation and landfall from NOAA’s Visualization lab via their YouTube channel.
This video from NASA’s Youtube Channel shows footage from cameras mounted on the International Space Station capturing new views of Hurricane Irene at 4:27 p.m. EDT on August 26, 2011. Accompanied by narration from Expedition 28 Flight Engineer Mike Fossum of NASA, the video showed the massive system moving north at 14 miles an hour packing winds of 100 miles an hour some 300 miles south-southwest of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina.
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