Perceiving hurricane motion in real time from the ISS

[Sonny Taylor]

Been curious for years if the spiral motion of a tropical cyclone (particularly near the eye) is visually perceivable from the ISS during a happenstance orbital pass over top of it, ~400 Km in altitude looking down.

I've seen ISS videos of such in the past; I could never discern any motion then. But it think I see it in the video pass over current Hurricane Franklin.

Darn... I lost the link to the video, find it later.

Has anyone else perceived such cyclone motion in videos from the ISS? Am I off my rocker for thinking that the short time the ISS has to pass overhead in orbit that I might see (even a little) Cyclone motion?

[Sonny Taylor]

Here's the video from Nasa...

For best quality click on "Watch on Youtube" (1080p60)



There are views from multiple cameras, sometimes rotating themselves giving an illusion of hurricane rotation (particularly just past the half way mark in the video).

But where the views are held steady, I see changes around the eye of the storm even though I know the viewpoint is changing rapidly at orbital speed.