NASA astronaut shares timelapse video of massive Hurricane Milton from space

A NASA astronaut shared ominous pictures and a video timelapse of Hurricane Milton from space.

The monolithic tempest has present regained Category 5 spot arsenic it barrels toward Florida.

"We flew implicit Hurricane Milton astir 90 minutes ago. Here is the presumption retired the Dragon Endeavour window. Expect tons of images from this model arsenic this is wherever I’m sleeping portion we hold to undock and instrumentality to Earth," Matthew Dominick, a NASA astronaut and U.S. Navy Commander shared successful a station connected X.

The video, posted connected Tuesday morning, shows the spaceship gliding successful space implicit the U.S. with Milton intelligibly visible. 

FLORIDIANS PREPARE FOR THE WORST AS HURRICANE MILTON QUICKLY APPROACHES

A NASA astronaut shared a timelapse video of Hurricane Milton from space. (X/@dominickmatthew)

Dominick said the video was taken from 1/6400 sec exposure, 14mm, ISO 500, 0.5 sec interval, 30fps.

"Hard to wrapper your caput astir the sheer size and powerfulness of these storms. Thanks for sharing your perspective!" 1 idiosyncratic commented connected the video.

"That's a breathtaking position connected the immense standard and the chiseled oculus enactment astatine the center," different idiosyncratic commented.

"Hurricane Milton looks massive, adjacent from Space!" different idiosyncratic wrote. 

Dominick, a autochthonal of Wheat Ridge, Colorado, shared the video of Milton from the Dragon Endeavour 5, which is simply a crewed abstraction capsule designed by SpaceX to ferry crews to the International Space Station. It is connected a six-month stay, according to the NASA website.

BIDEN SAYS HURRICANE MILTON COULD BE 'WORST STORM TO HIT FLORIDA IN OVER A CENTURY'

Milton had maximum sustained winds of 150 mph and was moving successful an east-northeast absorption astatine 9 mph, the hurricane halfway said successful a Tuesday update.

Milton is expected to bring a deadly tempest surge, destructive winds and flooding rain, Fox Weather reports. Forecasters warned of a imaginable 10- to 15-foot tempest surge successful Tampa Bay. It is the highest surge ever predicted for that determination and has led to evacuation orders for communities each on the coast.

Over the weekend, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis declared a authorities of exigency for 51 of the state’s 67 counties. 

Tampa Mayor Jane Castor issued a dire informing for those who take to enactment down successful mandatory evacuation zones arsenic Hurricane Milton barrels toward Florida.

HURRICANE MILTON REGAINS CATEGORY 5 INTENSITY AS FLORIDA RESIDENTS PREPARE FOR LIFE-THREATENING IMPACTS

Highway signage announces the impending accomplishment of Hurricane Milton and the evacuation zones connected Tuesday, Oct. 8, 2024, successful Port Richey, Fla. (AP Photo/Mike Carlson)

"Helene was a wake-up call, this is virtually catastrophic," Castor said connected CNN. "If you take to enactment successful 1 of those evacuation areas, you are going to die."

Hurricane Milton comes little than 2 weeks aft Hurricane Helene devastated Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia. 

At slightest 232 radical person mislaid their lives crossed 7 states, with North Carolina bearing the brunt of the devastation and with that fig expected to rise. 

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While powerfulness outages person fallen beneath 2 cardinal for the archetypal clip since the storm, astir 1.6 cardinal homes and businesses remain without electricity successful the hardest-hit states arsenic of Tuesday. 

Helene is present the second-deadliest hurricane to onslaught the mainland U.S. successful the past 55 years, topped lone by Hurricane Katrina successful 2005 and the astir since Hurricane Camille deed the Gulf Coast successful August 1969.

Fox News Digital's Bailee Hill, Steven Yablonski, Chris Oberholtz and Pilar Arias contributed to this report.