The photo was taken this past July 2 by astronauts aboard the ISS

Jul 3, 2014 09:20 GMT  ·  By

Just yesterday, astronauts aboard the International Space Station got to lay eyes on Tropical Storm Arthur, which at that time was busy looking all fierce close to Florida's coastline.

Luckily for us mere mortals, who don't get to look at Earth from space all that often, the astronauts even snapped a photo of this storm and shared it with the public moments after.

The pic is available above and, according to Live Science, it reached the online community via NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman, who posted it on Twitter.

As previously reported, Tropical Storm Arthur is the first named storm of this year's Atlantic hurricane season, which began on June 1 and will run through November 30.

Specialists working with the National Hurricane Center in the United States expect that, by Friday, the storm will have become a category-one hurricane.

Should this happen, it will pack winds whose speed will be approximately 74 miles per hour (about 119 kilometers per hour), information shared with the public says.

The storm is presently heading north and researchers explain that, come July 4, it will dump significant amounts of rain on the United States’ East Coast.

In preparation for the moment Tropical Storm Arthur will make landfall, a hurricane warning is in effect for North Carolina's entire coast.