Jaw-Dropping Images Of Super Typhoon Trami From Space

The crew and their cameras on board the International Space Station (ISS) have revealed some amazing perspectives of our planet. ISS astronauts take Earth photography as a popular recreation, and freak weather events like volcanic eruptions and huge storms provide plenty of subject matter to them.

This week, Alexander Gerst, the German Commander of Expedition 57, took a series of snapshots showing a deep blue ocean with crisp white clouds and the swirl of clouds within the symmetric eye. Gerst snapped the typhoon when it swirled over the Pacific Ocean. He zoomed in on its center and a surreal perspective is revealed.

Super typhoon Trami is now the most powerful storm. On Monday, Trami attained sustained winds of 160-mph, at peak intensity. That’s down a bit to 149 mph and gusts up to 184mph on Tuesday morning.

Though, the storm is still a threat to the southern islands in Japan ater this week since it starts to turn to the north. Erlier this week, the storm could even get to Honshu, the island with a most people in Japan. To talk about Trami's destructiveness, it may not compete Mangkhut rocking Hong Kong and the Philippines last week. But after all, Japan don't need that after a year with torrential rains.

The Western Pacific Ocean is the most active basin on the planet, especially this year has been specifically rough. This year has experienced more serious storms than usual, as well as accumulated cyclone enery, which a metric using wind from every cyclone in a basin and adding them up over time, is higher than normal, too. A 2016 research indicates that the intense of landfalling hurricanes in Asia has increased by 12-15% since 1970, which is likely due to warmer oceans.

Although these beasts over the ocean are stunning, do not forget they can still cause major damages at landfall.