Late winter storms dropped a fresh coating of snow across the Alps in mid-March 2016.
Published Mar 27, 2016
A slow-moving weather system brought a deluge to the U.S. South, flooding communities in multiple states.
Published Mar 16, 2016
In March 2016, wildfires spread across two UNESCO World Heritage sites in Thailand.
Published Mar 3, 2016
A collaborative field study seeks to advance NASA’s ability to monitor air quality from space.
Published Mar 2, 2016
Colorful ocean water spread across the Spencer Gulf and Gulf St Vincent.
Published Feb 29, 2016
Winds lofted dust from the Sahara desert and sent it drifting over the Iberian peninsula.
Published Feb 25, 2016
Dust was streaming across large swaths of Iraq when the Aqua satellite captured this image.
Published Feb 23, 2016
The menacing storm is predicted to reach the island nation with category 4 winds.
Published Feb 20, 2016
The eruption at the Kamchatkan volcano continues thirty months after it began.
Published Feb 19, 2016
Long bands of cumulus clouds lined up over the Great Lakes in this spectacular display of “cloud streets.”
Published Feb 12, 2016
Many regions in the western half of the United States saw ample snowfall in early 2016.
Published Feb 10, 2016
Whether a patch of clouds contains open or closed cells offers a clue about whether rain is falling below.
Published Feb 6, 2016
Winds loft dust from Western Sahara, Mauritania, and Senegal westward over the Atlantic Ocean.
Published Jan 27, 2016
Snowfall blankets areas of South Korea and strands travelers.
Published Jan 26, 2016
A great blizzard has painted many states white.
Published Jan 26, 2016
Hurricane Pali became the earliest hurricane on record in the Central Pacific.
Published Jan 14, 2016
A fast-moving blaze destroyed 128 homes in Yarloop, a town in Western Australia.
Published Jan 12, 2016
Military attacks sent smoke billowing from oil production facilities near Sidra.
Published Jan 8, 2016
As is often the case in the winter, haze hovered over the Indo-Gangetic Plain in January 2016, darkening skies over northern India and Bangladesh.
Published Jan 5, 2016
Hole-punch and canal clouds form when aircraft pass through altocumulus clouds that are rich with supercooled water droplets.
Published Dec 30, 2015
Authorities in Beijing have issued a first-ever “red” air pollution alert.
Published Dec 8, 2015
Like an island or ship, some icebergs are large enough to influence cloud patterns above.
Published Dec 6, 2015
The swirling greens and blues are densely concentrated, microscopic plants growing on the surface of the ocean.
Published Dec 3, 2015
Sandra was a tropical storm before growing into a late-season hurricane.
Published Nov 25, 2015
For a region that is quite familiar with snow, it was still a storm for the history books.
Published Nov 24, 2015
The troughs and ridges of atmospheric waves created a distinctive pattern in the clouds.
Published Nov 21, 2015
Central Asia’s snowy Himalaya range rises above a dry plateau to the north and a vegetated plain to the south.
Published Nov 20, 2015
A few weeks before the arrival of winter, some areas of Canada and the western United States were doused with cold rain and snow.
Published Nov 19, 2015
In early November 2015, dense fog disrupted air travel in London and central Europe.
Published Nov 15, 2015
Ash from Mount Rinjani closed airports on three Indonesian islands.
Published Nov 7, 2015
