A collection of weather images from around the world.
AUSTRALIA
Top image: Fire in Western Australia (5 November 2019). The late-spring fire follows what has been a dry winter and spring across most of the country. This image originally appeared in the NASA Earth Observatory story Fire in Western Australia. NASA Earth Observatory image by Lauren Dauphin, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey. Text by Kathryn Hansen.
INDIA
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| Haze Smothers Northern India on 4 November. Air pollution has reached hazardous levels in some areas. This image originally appeared in the NASA Earth Observatory story Haze Smothers Northern India. NASA Earth Observatory image by Lauren Dauphin, using MODIS data from NASA EOSDIS/LANCE and GIBS/Worldview. Photograph courtesy of GLOBE. Story by Adam Voiland |
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| Spate of Cyclones in the North Indian Ocean. A series of strong tropical cyclones spun up this year in an area that typically doesn’t see many. This image was acquired on November 4. NASA Earth Observatory images by Joshua Stevens, using data from the Multiscale Ultrahigh Resolution (MUR) project, storm track data from NOAA, and MODIS data from NASA EOSDIS/LANCE and GIBS/Worldview. Story by Kathryn Hansen. |
UK
Dozens of homes were evacuated on 8th November 2019 after heavy rainfall turned roads into rivers across parts of northern England. As river levels continued to rise, the Environment Agency issued “danger to life” severe flood warnings and urged people to stay away from swollen rivers. Dozens of people spent the night in a shopping centre in Sheffield, after torrential rain flooded the city’s streets.
SOMALIA / ZIMBABWE
In Somalia, hundreds of thousands have been driven from their homes by severe flooding. South Sudan, parts of northern Kenya and Ethiopia have also been hit by extreme rainfall. But Somalia has been particularly affected with more than 300 thousand people have been made homeless. This is said to be some of the worst flooding the country has experienced in years, maybe decades. It's a different story in southern Africa where many parts of the region have been hit with a devastating drought. In Zimbabwe, animals have been affected the most as the lack of rain dries up water holes and grazing areas. More than 100 elephants have died in Zimbabwe's wildlife reserves since September.