images

Hurricane Ophelia 10/2017

by

ESA/Novapix

Reference

t-nua01-01220

Date

2017-10-15

The Copernicus Sentinel-3A satellite captured this image on 11 October 2017, when Hurricane Ophelia was about 1300 km southwest of the Azores islands and some 2000 km off the African coast. Originally classified as a tropical storm, it has been upgraded to a hurricane. The storm is moving northeasterly, threatening to hit the northwestern tip of Spain before moving towards Ireland.