With a visible eye and tight bands of spiraling clouds, Cyclone Laurence was clearly a mature, well-developed cyclone when it went ashore over Western Australia for the second time, on December 21.
This image of Cyclone Hamish was captured by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Aqua satellite on March 9, 2009 at 3:30 Universal Time.
Comma-shaped Cyclone Oli was a formidable Category 4 cyclone moving over French Polynesia in the South Pacific when this true-color image was captured on the afternoon of February 4, 2010.