NASA astronaut captures breathtaking image of cyclone storm over Mumbai

With the first showers hitting Mumbai on Sunday, the city’s landscape is set to change with the rain and greenery. And as Mumbai gears up the monsoon below, the skyscape above seems to be changing as well. [caption id=“attachment_2285132” align=“alignleft” width=“380”]  Tropical cyclone near Mumbai. Image Courtesy: Twitter @AstroTerry[/caption] There is a storm brewing up in the clouds above Mumbai and it looks beautiful. NASA astronaut Terry W. Virts, is known for posting his stunning imagery of the Earth and celestial phenomena from space. On Monday he posted a photograph of a tropical cyclone swirling above Mumbai, just at the onset of the monsoon. The photograph shows a truly breathtaking image of white clouds spiraling across the blue background of the sky.

Tropical Cyclone 01A near #Mumbai #India. pic.twitter.com/6qv4ViKiuH

— Terry Virts (@AstroTerry) June 7, 2015

And if you think that the still life is amazing, wait till you see the full  video. Virts followed it up with a vine of the cyclone moving west from Mumbai to the Himalayas.

From Tropical Cyclone 01A churning west of #India to the #Himalayas. #SpaceVine pic.twitter.com/VmOuRzcva3

— Terry Virts (@AstroTerry) June 7, 2015

A tropical cyclone is a rapidly rotating storm characterized by strong winds and a spiral arrangement of thunderstorms that produce heavy rain. The India Meteorological Department has said that the deep depression over Arabian Sea has moved north-northwestwards and intensified further into a cyclonic storm (ASHOBAA), which lay centered at  nearly 590 km west-southwest of Mumbai on of 8 June. This isn’t the first time that Virts has photographed India from space.He had earlier posted beautiful images and vines of the aerial Indian view, from the Ganges to Chennai. Truly, India looks incredible even when seen from above.