Dark green blankets much of India in this vegetation image. The April harvest yielded a record corn and rice crop, said the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Foreign Agricultural Service.
Published May 3, 2008
Surface water supplies are diminished after several years of underwhelming monsoons and oppressive heat.
Published Jun 17, 2016
Extreme temperatures baked northern cities for nearly three weeks.
Published Jun 12, 2019Image of the Day Atmosphere Heat Land Drought Floods Severe Storms Human Presence Temperature Extremes
2019 has brought exceptional rain to some areas, and the monsoon is retreating later than any season in recent memory.
Published Oct 7, 2019Image of the Day Land Water Drought Floods Severe Storms Human Presence Remote Sensing Temperature Extremes
With its own forms of underwater weather, the ocean has fronts and circulation patterns that move heat and nutrients around its basins. Changes near the surface often start with changes in the depths.
Published Mar 21, 2017
Most of India and Bangladesh are brown, showing that less rain fell than average during the week of July 14-20, when monsoon rains should have been falling.
Published Jul 25, 2009
India and Tibet were sweltering in early June, though the arrival of the monsoon provides some relief.
Published Jun 22, 2014
Intense monsoon rain triggered destructive floods and landslides across Asia. This image shows unusually heavy rainfall over Pakistan, India, and parts of China during the first week of August 2010.
Published Aug 12, 2010
Weakening trade winds are allowing warm water to move east across the Pacific in a telltale pattern.
Published Aug 5, 2015
The water stored naturally underground appears to be rebounding in the western and southern parts of India.
Published Sep 22, 2017
At least seven million people in India, Nepal, Bangladesh, and Pakistan have been displaced or had their lives disrupted by flooding in July 2019.
Published Jul 17, 2019Image of the Day Drought Floods Severe Storms Remote Sensing Temperature Extremes
The cool water anomaly in the center of the image shows the lingering effect of the year-old La Niña. However, the much broader area of cooler-than-average water off the coast of North America from Alaska (top center) to the equator is a classic feature of the cool phase of the Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO).
Published Apr 29, 2008
These color-coded images show the strengthening of El Niño between October and November 2009. In the November image, warm waters (indicated in red) have spread across the Pacific.
Published Dec 11, 2009
Nearly 65 percent of the country’s reservoirs were running dry in June 2019.
Published Jun 27, 2019Image of the Day Water Drought Floods Severe Storms Temperature Extremes
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