August 26, 2020. (Click image for high–resolution view.) Government meteorologists issued unusually dire warnings as a large hurricane neared the U.S. Gulf Coast on August…
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NASA’s Terra satellite provided a visible image of the large and powerful major Hurricane Laura in the Gulf of Mexico on August 26, 2020 at…
August 16, 2020. (Click image for high-resolution view.) On August 16, 2020, temperatures in Southern California approached the highest levels ever reliably recorded on Earth.…
This ECOSTRESS temperature map shows the land surface temperatures throughout Los Angeles County on August 14, 2020, during a heat wave. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech From cities…
Lidar shooting into the Antarctic night sky, Arrival Heights Observatory. Credit: Danny Hampton, Ian Geraghty, Zimu Li A University of Colorado Boulder-led team is the…
[unable to retrieve full-text content] Australian meteorologists took note recently when not one—but two—vast bands of clouds stretched from the eastern Indian Ocean to Australia,…
Auroral beads seen from the International Space Station, September 17, 2011 (Frame ID: ISS029-E-6012). Credit: NASA A special type of aurora, draped east-west across the…
Airmen experience St. Elmo’s fire while flying a KC-10 aircraft into a thundercloud from an undisclosed location, March 22, 2017. St. Elmo’s fire occurs when…
Aerial photograph of the Blue Hole, a flooded karst sinkhole on Lighthouse Reef, Belize, where the research team from Frankfurt was able to tap into…
A blazing sunset lights up the evening sky. Credit: NOAA Four years of research confidently narrows range of 1.5°C-4.5°C down to 2.3°C-3.9°C. The most advanced…
A commercial airplane on a runway. Weather forecasts have become less accurate during the COVID-19 pandemic due to the reduction in commercial flights, according to…
June 1 – July 20, 2020 Rainfall that accompanies Asia’s summer monsoon plays an important role in the region’s economy by refilling aquifers, generating hydroelectric…
Click image for full, detailed view. In July 2020, the Eastern Pacific experienced its first major hurricane of the year. After intensifying to category 4…
June 30, 2020 Since the start of Asia’s summer monsoon season on June 1, 2020, excessive rainfall has pushed lakes and rivers to record high…
June 26, 2020 In southern South America, clouds often rule the skies. But in June 2020, just the right weather patterns were in place to…
NASA’s AIRS instrument captured this image of Tropical Storm Fay around 2 p.m. local time on July 10, 2020, as the storm swept through New…
Warmer than average sea surface temperatures in the tropical North Atlantic Ocean so far in 2020 have set the stage for an active hurricane season…
The Copernicus Sentinel-5P mission is dedicated to monitoring air pollution by measuring a multitude of trace gases as well as aerosols. This image shows the…
The “Triaxus” towing platform breaks through the choppy surface of the ocean during a storm. By towing such a platform with monitoring instruments through the…
Noctilucent or ‘night shining’ clouds (NLC) are captured over Knowlton Church in Dorset, UK, by astrophotographer Ollie Taylor in the early hours of June 22,…