Satellites in space are watching as Hurricane Ernesto races through the Atlantic Ocean not long after it made landfall in Bermuda on Saturday (Aug. 17), where it dumped seven to nine inches (18 to 23 centimeters) of rain on the ground, downed trees and caused island-wide power outages.
NOAA's GOES-East satellite also recorded real-time views of Ernesto last week as it watched the hurricane barrel toward Bermuda, ferrying with it heavy rainfall and dangerous 85-mile-per-hour (137-kilometer-per-hour) winds. The footage, which the satellite gathered from its vantage point about 22,236 miles (35,785 kilometers) above Earth's equator, shows lightning flashes dotting the hurricane's outer bands just a day before it made landfall in Bermuda.
