How the blizzard looked from space

NASA, astronaut Scott Kelly provide spectacular images of Winter Storm Jonas

Dylan Stableford
·Senior Writer

The massive blizzard that buried the East Coast over the weekend was a spectacle for both the 45 million Americans affected by the storm — and for those watching from space.

NASA released a series of satellite images showing snow on the ground in 21 states stretching from Georgia to Maine.

A high-resolution image of the Washington, D.C., area taken on Sunday showed the nation’s capital blanketed in white.


And infrared imagery from NASA-NOAA’s Suomi NPP satellite showed the blizzard over the New York metropolitan area at night.


Capt. Scott Kelly, the American astronaut and U.S. Navy veteran nearing the end of a yearlong mission in space, shared his view of the storm from aboard the International Space Station.


“Flying 250 miles above the Earth aboard the International Space Station has given me the unique vantage point from which to view our planet,” Kelly wrote in a Tumblr post titled “Chasing Storms at 17,500 mph.” “The recent blizzard was remarkably visible from space. I took several photos of the first big storm system on Earth of year 2016 as it moved across the East Coast, Chicago and Washington.”


View more of Kelly’s photos above.