For much of October, smoke poured from fires in Borneo.
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Cyclone Chapala spins over the Gulf of Aden as a category 3 storm, and nears the coast of Yemen.
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Cyclone Chapala approaches the coast of the Arabian Peninsula.
Super typhoon Koppu (Lando) dropped nearly a meter of rain on parts of Luzon, leading to destructive floods and landslides.
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Hurricane Olaf broke records by becoming the 21st Category 4 or 5 storm of 2015.
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Typhoon Koppu has weakened, but the system is still expected to bring widespread flooding to the Philippine’s Luzon Island.
Smoke continues to pour from fires in Sumatra.
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Tropical Storm Joaquin, east of the Bahamas, strengthened into a Category 1 hurricane.
Thousands of people were forced to evacuate as Category 4 Typhoon Duhuan made landfall.
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As El Niño intensifies, peat deposits are making seasonal fires in Sumatra and Borneo unusually difficult to control.
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Was the plume that emanated from Tanzania's second-highest mountain caused by fire or volcanic activity?
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As the end of Southern Hemisphere winter approached, snow painted the Andes Mountains.
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In southern California, the Santa Ana fires that strike in fall tend to be faster moving and more destructive than summer fires.
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As temperatures cool, deciduous trees in Siberia are making their annual transformation.
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Though it never reached typhoon status, Etau provoked record-setting rain in several prefectures.
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Satellites provide a unique and valuable view of dust.
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Weather systems give a cyclone-like look to a vast dust storm in the Middle East.
In 2015, wildfires in Alaska consumed an area nearly the size of New Jersey.
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Scientists investigate how clouds respond to ship plumes.
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Typhoon Goni, one of two powerful typhoons churning in the western North Pacific, brushed the Philippines before heading north.
Wildfires have charred tens of thousands of acres in Idaho, Oregon, and Washington.
Land Fires
Visitors to Russia’s Lake Baikal have been met with smoke and ash from wildfires raging in the area.
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Winds pushed thick plumes of Saharan dust over the Canary Islands.
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The storm is weakening as it approaches the islands.
A wall of dust rolled north from Sudan into southern Egypt.
Wildfires have charred more than 6 million acres in the United States.
A wildfire in north-central Washington led to evacuations in a nearby village and closures along the Pacific Crest Trail.
Atmosphere Land Fires
Several large wildfires have charred tens of thousands of acres in northern California.
Summer brought melting swirls of sea ice to the southeastern coast of Greenland.
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The storm was set for landfall late on July 16.
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