The shots are awe-inspiring from Hurricane Idalia recorded by NASA, from the International Space Station (ISS). The NASA footage shows Hurricane Idalia to “cover” the state of Florida.

The footage shows it “eye” of the storm while the Space Station was over the state. The US space agency broadcast the phenomenon live via the X platform.

The National Hurricane Center classified the hurricane as “unprecedented event”, as it hit Florida yesterday Wednesday, lashing the coast with torrential rain, heavy waves and gale-force winds of up to 200 kilometers per hour. Two people died during the onslaught of the typhoon.

After passing through Florida, Idalia was downgraded to a tropical storm before making landfall neighboring state of Georgia, accompanied by torrential rains, with the height of the rain reaching up to 25 cm. The rise of the waters threatens the inhabitants of the coastal areas, while there have also been interruptions in the electricity supply.

In the morning more than 310,000 households in Florida, Georgia and South Carolina were still without power, according to the specialist website PowerOutage.us.

Florida State Patrol said two people were killed in separate crashes early Wednesday due to heavy rains, but before Idalia reached the state.

Rescue services will need time to assess the extent of damage in the isolated areas, which are difficult to access due to fallen trees or rising waters, authorities warned.

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Idalia arrived in Florida on Wednesday at 07:45 local time with sustained winds of up to 215 kilometers per hour and caused water to rise up to 5 meters in some coastal areas, the National Hurricane Center (NHC) said. ) in Miami.

When it hit Florida it was a category 3 hurricane on the five-point Saffir-Simpson scale, but then its intensity decreased. By the time it reached Georgia and South Carolina, winds had dropped to about 100 kilometers per hour.

“There are still a lot of flooded areas in the city,” Ben Almquist, director of emergency response for Charleston, South Carolina, told CNN.

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Climate change

Idalia was strengthened from a tropical storm to a hurricane early Tuesday, one day after it hit Cuba. There it caused torrential rains and floods, while more than 200,000 households are without electricity. However, there were no casualties on the island.

It is the fourth major hurricane to hit Florida in the past four years, following Irma in 2017, Michael in 2018 and Ian, which reached Category 5 in September. Because of Ian, nearly 150 people died in Southwest Florida, and serious property damage was also caused.

Scientists have warned that the intensity of storms will increase as the planet warms due to climate change.