To the east of Madeline, Hurricane Lester is also moving through the eastern Pacific.
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The International Space Station has captured incredible footage of three hurricanes spinning above the Earth’s oceans.
Hurricane Lester – also a Category 1, now located more than a thousand miles east of Hawaii – might threaten the islands by this weekend, though it may have weakened to a tropical storm by then.
Hurricane Madeline was going towards west cross the Pacific Ocean, with winds even powerful than the ones of Lester, at 130 miles per hour (209 km/h). The Category 4 storm headed westward throughout the Pacific Ocean, producing strong 125-mph (200 km/h) winds.
At NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, infrared data from the Atmospheric Infrared Sounder or AIRS instrument that flies aboard NASA’s Aqua satellite was made into a false-colored infrared image from data taken on August 30 at 6:29 a.m. EDT (10:29 UTC).
However Hawaii is first expecting the arrival of Hurricane Madeleine, a category three tornado which is predicted to pass just south of the Big Island at 2am on Thursday.
With such powerful winds, ocean swells are expected to reach the Hawaiian Islands and could cause damage along the coastline, NASA officials said in the statement.
Two tropical depressions are swirling in the Atlantic basin; meanwhile, Hawaii is bracing for two hurricanes in the Pacific.
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On Wednesday morning the US National Hurricane Centre said that Hurricane Gaston had increased to 120mph, but it was stationary and expected to weaken.
