The Margin: What monster storm Juno looked like from space

Many in the Northeast are still cleaning up and scraping away Winter Storm Juno, which brought 3 feet of snow in some parts of New England, wind gusts as high as 78 mph and severe flooding in coastal areas.

Images and time-lapse videos of the blizzard flooded social media earlier this week, but one NASA astronaut proved that the best view of a monster storm is always from space. Astronaut Terry W. Virts had a stunning view of Juno, tweeting photos and a video of the storm from the international space station as it hammered Massachusetts.

The blizzard looks like a hurricane, Virts tweeted as the storm approached the eastern tip Boston.

Heres what Juno looked like near peak intensity early Tuesday via the Suomi National Polar-orbiting satellite, operated by NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Some of the clouds over the sea were also generating lightning, according to the Weather Channel.

This image shows the storm in its organizing stage along the East Coast. Blizzard conditions were intact for 14 straight hours in Marshfield, Mass., the Weather Channel said.

Astronaut Sam Cristoforetti from the European Space Agency offered another striking viewpoint of Earth from space, tweeting this photo on Wednesday.

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The Margin: What monster storm Juno looked like from space