Emirati astronaut Al Neyadi tracks tropical cyclone in the Arabian Sea from space
- 13 Jun 2023
Yamama Badwan, Staff Reporter
Sultan Al Neyadi, the Emirati astronaut, documented the tropical cyclone in the Arabian Sea from the International Station.
The Emirati astronaut shared the video on Twitter and wrote, “Watch as a tropical cyclone forms over the Arabian Sea from these views I captured.
The ISS provides a unique perspective on several natural phenomena, which can assist experts on Earth in weather monitoring.?️?
Stay safe, everyone!”
Al Neyadi reviewed his passage over the Arabian Peninsula, specifically the United Arab Emirates from west to east, as well as the city of Al Ain and Jebel Hafeet, then over the Hajar Mountains to the Sultanate of Oman and the Arabian Sea.
He said that he is trying to cover the weather from space, and to photograph the tropical storm that appears on the horizon, as well as the eye of the hurricane — that is, its center — where he directed the camera downward and began to take many pictures of the hurricane, but he described the scene as terrifying due to the presence of heavy cloud and thunderstorms.
The eye of the hurricane is an area characterized by calm weather in general in the midst of strong tropical cyclones, and it is a semi-circular area with a diameter that usually ranges from 30 to 65 km.
It is also surrounded by the eye wall, which is a ring of high-altitude thunderstorms with severe weather.
