Big Eye

[danalwyn]

Some pictures are stunning. Some pictures are terrifying. I find this particular composite image to be both:




That storm has already hit the Philippines. We already know what it's done. But sometimes it's impossible for the human mind to comprehend just how large things are. The true scope of nature's power exceeds the human scope of comprehension by such a magnitude that what is going to be profoundly devastating becomes merely pretty.

(Image is from Goddard, composite from NASA, EUMETSAT, and the JMA, from flickr)

Comments

[silverjackal]

Oh my! That is *incredible*. It looks to be the width of the entire Indian subcontinent. D: You'll never catch me doubting the scale and might of nature, and still, I am awed by this. Thank you for sharing it.

[danalwyn]

It's just hard sometimes to remember how large a storm really is. Here we're used to ones that come and go in a day at normal speeds, but even if the whole storm was going at sixty miles an hour it would take a long time for that to pass over anything. It's just a different scale.