Record Warm Waters off Southern California
California has seen a range of natural extremes this summer, from heat waves to wildfires. The state can now add to the list record-warm ocean temperatures.
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Rare Fair Skies over all of the UK and Ireland
On June 27, 2018, satellites captured this image of rare fair skies over all of the UK and Ireland.
River in the Sky Keeps Flowing over the West US
Yet another series of rare atmospheric rivers has drenched California, in a stunning turnaround from five years of drought.
Hurricanes Madeline and Lester
This week, two Pacific storms are lining up to hit the island of Hawaii, which rarely takes a direct hit from a hurricane.
Oxygen Factories in the Southern Ocean
Phytoplankton, the grass of the sea, by floating, drifting, plant-like organisms that harness the energy of the Sun. Then they mix it with carbon dioxide that they
Typhoons Goni and Atsani
The ninth and tenth typhoons of the year spun in the vicinity of Japan, in August 2015, as you can see in this VIIRS satellite image.
Twin Tropical Cyclones
On January 28, 2015 geostationary satellites collected the infrared data used to make the composite image of the two tropical cyclones swirled over the central Indian Ocean.