A dramatic satellite view of the Mediterranean: A sweeping #SaharanDust arc intrudes between cloud bands, staining the sea in muted browns. The contrast reveals active #atmospheric dynamics—desert aerosols sculpted by winds🌬 beneath layered clouds. ☁️🟤🌊 🛰 #NASA 🌍 worldview.earthdata.nasa.gov

⚠️Iraq sandstorms: The dual threat of #ClimateChange. Lack of rain, rising temperatures, drying wetlands & lakes show how environmental collapse knows no borders. What starts at the Iraq wetlands spreads across the region. #ClimateCrisis #MiddleEast 🛰Meteosat @eumetsat.int ✂️Via @zoom.earth

Satellite imagery shows a #Saharan dust plume moving from Mauritania into the Atlantic. Strong northeasterly trade winds lift and transport dry boundary-layer #dust offshore. Filamented margins indicate wind shear, mixing with marine stratocumulus, and reduced visibility. #AirQuality 📅 2026 Jan 07

Satellite imagery captures a ~255 km pollution plume from Iraq’s Wasit Power Station. Such persistence signals fine PM and reactive gases surviving long-range transport, driving regional aerosol loading, ecosystem stress, and diffuse health impacts far beyond the source—visible only from space.

A strong 6.5-magnitude #earthquake⚡️ struck southwestern #Mexico on January 2, 2026, causing entire buildings 🏣 to sway near the San Marcos area in Guerrero. 🎬X @RapidReport @sangasso.bsky.social

No borders, No wars — just peace for everyone on #Earth.🌏🕊 Happy New Year, Earth🎆🎇

#Argentina: A massive power outage hit #BuenosAires and surrounding suburbs late Tuesday, Dec 30. As a heatwave grips the region ahead of #NewYear’s Eve, NASA’s nighttime imagery reveals large areas plunged into darkness across the metro area. 🎄⚡️🌑 🛰 #NASA 🌍 worldview.earthdata.nasa.gov

This #DustStorm again covers the same SE Iran–Makran–Gulf of Oman region affected ~2 months ago, with similar or greater intensity. Such repetition points to sustained dry surfaces and recurring wind patterns, not a random or isolated event. #AirQuality #Dust 🛰 #NASA 🌍 worldview.earthdata.nasa.gov

Satellite observations show distinct pollution plumes from heavy fuel oil " #mazut 🏭" combustion at major power plants in western and central #Iran. These emissions accumulate over the Tehran–Qom basin, intensifying regional haze and #AirQuality degradation. #MazutBurning #AirPollution #PM25

This animation shows a #DustStorm blowing out of the Gobi Desert of Mongolia. Clouds form a giant swirl where the borders of #Mongolia and #China meet. Although clouds obscure much of the #dust and the landscape below. Clear skies allowing a view of the area where the plumes originate #AirQuality

🚨 CCTV📹 footage from a supermarket🛒 shows the moment a powerful M6.1 #earthquake⚡️ hit Taitung City, #Taiwan. 📼X: @trtworld #EarthquakeTaiwan

Sometimes clouds look familiar, shaped by our imagination and state of mind.🧠✨ This one caught my eye—it looks like a gorilla’s face to me.☁️🦍 I often stumble upon these shapes by chance, and that’s what makes them fascinating.☁️☁️☁️ 🛰 #NASA 🌍 #worldview

This images, captured by the 🛰 #Landsat on December 23, 2025. shows the Sediment and mud, caused by the heavy rains, can be seen gushing from the Mond River, #Iran , into #PersianGulf. ✂️Visualized: 🌍 eos.com/landviewer

Some drivers seem to treat flash #floods like a casual shortcut. This truck is crossing a flooded road as if gravity and rushing water don’t exist. Hint: they do. Turn back. Find safety. Risking your life for a few meters isn’t brave—it’s foolish.

Off Western #Australia, long-period swells slam into a sudden shallow reef, forcing the wave’s energy upward instead of forward. The result is a rare vertical wall of water and a thunderous roar—often mistaken for an earthquake, but caused purely by wave physics. 🌊🕳 source @abcnews

#BlackSky and #HEO teamed up to image five visiting spacecraft at the #ISS—highlighting the power of capturing brief, high-value moments in orbit. X: @BlackSky_Inc @heospace

This #RedSea dust plume shows how winds reshape storms after they form. #Dust spreads freely over open water, then bends south as steady northerlies take control. The smooth arc highlights #wind steering rather than the dust source itself. 🌬🟤🌊 #Visibility #AirQuality #DustPlume

It’s interesting how #satellites can now photograph each other from space, turning anomalies into visible stories. The #satellite staying mostly intact suggests a quiet failure, not a dramatic breakup. #Space is harsh, and reentry like this is a normal part of the cycle. #Starlink 🛰🌍 📸X @vantortech

Satellite imagery shows #dust from southern Iraq & northern Saudi deserts spreading over the NW #PersianGulf. Coastal southern Iran affected with reduced visibility and hazy conditions as dust layers advect SE over the region. #AirQuality Satellite Data:🛰 2025 Dec 20 🌍 worldview.earthdata.nasa.gov

Satellite imagery shows an extensive #dust plume originating from southern Iraq & northern Saudi deserts, advected SE by strong NW Shamal winds. Dust covers Kuwait and the NW #PersianGulf, reducing visibility; marine haze evident offshore. Satellite Data:🛰 2025 Dec 19 🌍 worldview.earthdata.nasa.gov

Dust outbreak over the Red Sea. This is a classic winter Shamal signature: northerly–northwesterly flow lofts desert #dust from western #Arabia, spreads it over the #RedSea, then advects it southward. The curved plume reflects flow channeling, frictional effects, and mesoscale wind shear over water.

Your pretty picture of the day 😀 🌊with of course many interesting processes! Water rich in suspended sediments is moved around by ocean currents in the Bay of Biscay. I'm curious about the long-range waves seen in the dark region, can't decide if these are oceanic, atmospheric, or an artifact 😅

This plume isn’t just local pollution: it shows regional transport. Winter boundary-layer collapse + high humidity favor secondary aerosol formation (sulfates/nitrates). Eastern outflow toward the Bay of Bengal confirms multi-day stagnation, not a single emission spike. #AirQuality 📅 2025 Dec 16-17

Gorgan Bay Crisis⚠️ #Iran Rapid loss of Gorgan Bay’s, in Iran surface area—over 140 of 400 km²—signals severe #hydrological stress. Remaining waters face escalating salinity, habitat collapse, and economic disruption. Without coordinated watershed and coastal management, #drying will intensify.

1-minute @noaa.gov #GOES18/#GOESWest True Color RGB images showed a hazy plume of resuspended volcanic ash (*from the 1912 eruption of Novarupta-Katmai*) as it was being transported across the Shelikof Strait toward Kodiak Island: geosphere.ssec.wisc.edu#playing:true...; #AKwx

Another very dusty day in Patagonia today , with activity spanning hundreds of km. #highlatitudedust @sheffielddust.bsky.social

Iceberg #A23a Development of the size 11. Aug. - 11.Dec. 2025 About 2400 km2 > 1000km2 📸🛰Sentinel3 Footage: @sentinelonline.bsky.social

In #Japan, this phenomenon is known as a “cap cloud” — a perfect crown resting above the majestic Mount Fuji. 🏔☁️✨ 📅 December 11 🎬X @Shasidt @huubeggen.bsky.social @quentinrey.com @hydrology.nl

A brief #tornado 🌪 -like wind #vortex was spotted in Carcaraña, Santa Fe, Argentina. The event occurred in the Los Altos neighborhood shortly after 1 PM this Thursday and lasted only a few seconds, but several residents managed to capture images of the phenomenon. 🎬 X @Roldanyvos

🚨It was a close call. 🚗🌊 In this video, the car crosses a creek just seconds before a flash #flood hits. A few meters or seconds later, it could’ve been disastrous. 😱 💧 Never underestimate water. ⚠️If you see flooding, turn back. Find a safe route. Don’t risk your life. 📌 Maraveh Tappeh County, Iran

Dynamic surface patterns in the Arabian Sea: turquoise vortices formed by sediment-rich currents and nutrient mixing, revealing active coastal circulation captured in high resolution.🌀🔵🟢 🛰 #Sentinel2

Ocean’s hidden pulse: A vast, cloud-like wave packet rippling beneath the surface of the Celebes Sea — invisible to the eye, but revealed from space. A silent force shaping currents, stirring nutrients, and reminding us how alive the deep ocean truly is.🌊💫

A powerful 7.6 #earthquake struck off northern Japan, sending a 40-cm #tsunami into coastal towns, the Japan Meteorological Agency reported. CCTV showed prolonged shaking. #Japan, located on the Ring of Fire, is among the world’s most quake-prone nations. ⚡️ 🎬X @tv_asahi_news

A #DustStorm swept across the Tanami #Desert in the Northern Territory, passing over one of Australia’s largest underground gold mines on Sunday. 🟤🌵🏜

Quote-thread @huubeggen.bsky.social & @wed-explorer.bsky.social: nice 👇 mosaicking of photos at #PortSaid, #Egypt and helpful info On the interactive map isspix.com/ISS073, there are two pins for these posts; the eastern one also has link to the downloadable 1120-mm (!) high-res by #KimiyaYui

A rare rainbow cloud, called an iridescent cloud, appeared over Kansai, Honshu, #Japan. The vivid colors form when sunlight diffracts through tiny, evenly sized water droplets or ice crystals, creating bright, shimmering hues. ⛅️🌈 @huubeggen.bsky.social @quentinrey.com

🆘High-resolution images show widespread #flooding in Sri Lanka, with homes surrounded by rising waters. The scenes highlight the extent of the damage and the urgent need for support as communities cope with the aftermath.🌊🏘 #SriLankaFlood #FloodSL #SriLanka 📸 @vantortech 🛰 Maxar

Indonesia’s loss of 10.5M ha of forest is a direct amplifier of disaster. Without tree cover, soils erode, slopes fail, and #floods hit with brutal force. The deadly impacts we see today stem from weakened watersheds and unchecked #deforestation —not nature alone.🌳🌲 #IndonesiaFlood 🛰 #Sentinel2

A surge of pale plumes spilling into the Gulf of Lion reveals a powerful pulse of sediment flushed seaward—most likely driven by intense post-storm runoff. 🌀🔵🟢 This dynamic mosaic exposes how river floods briefly rewrite the coastline, painting the Mediterranean with Earth’s raw energy.🌊🎨

Satellite imagery captures striking before-and-after views of the destructive F4 wedge #tornado🌪 in #Brazil. When a powerful tornado tears through a city, it leaves a dramatic footprint — leveled buildings, uprooted trees, and long paths of scattered debris. 🛰 vantor.com

🆘 Satellite imagery over Sri Lanka shows widespread #flood -affected zones, visible as broad beige swaths replacing vegetation. Inland waterlogging, disrupted land patterns, and heavy sediment transport reflect extensive #flooding well beyond the coastal strip. ⛈🌊 #SriLankaFlood #FloodSL #SriLanka

A powerful #SaharanDust storm sweeps across northeastern Libya, transforming clear skies into a dense beige plume. Pre-storm clarity gives way to a broad #dust fan streaming over Derna and Tobruk, revealing strong desert winds lofting fine particles far over the #Mediterranean. 🛰 #NASA 🌍 #worldview

A glory from space! A contrast enhanced image taken by earth observation satellite #Terra on 24 November 2025 shows one clearly. The border region of Namibia and Angola is at upper right. A glory is round, but not in this case. More on this in the alt-text.

Quote-thread @huubeggen.bsky.social & @wed-explorer.bsky.social: very nice 👇 choice for a photo in northeastern #Malaysia & an associated "in my mind" pic 😀 On the interactive map isspix.com/ISS073, there are two pins for these posts; each also has link to the downloadable 240-mm high-

Quote-post @wed-explorer.bsky.social: nice observation of an interesting weather phenomenon 👇

Satellite imagery shows multiple #fire clusters in #Azerbaijan and #Armenia generating a broad, merged smoke layer. The thick regional haze indicates elevated particulate loads and significant cross-border #atmospheric transport. 🔥🌬☁️🌀🌏 #AirQuality 😷 🛰 #NASA ✂️Visualized @zoom.earth

Interesting how two distant deserts show the same cloud behavior:☁️☁️ moist air sliding over cool ground, hitting an inversion, and forming a smooth cloud sheet with a razor-sharp edge. A natural result of dry–humid air contrast. 🗺: 📌Adrar, Algeria 📌Mangistau, Kazakhstan

Before–after satellite images of the #HayliGubbi🔺🌋 #eruption reveal a stark shift in terrain tones. Dark bands near the crater show heavy, coarse ash fallout, while lighter outer zones mark fine ash carried by winds—clear evidence of a powerful, wide-reaching eruption. 1/2 🧵

In Afar’s semi-desert grasslands, ash fallout is smothering sparse vegetation and is contaminating grazing areas, while also adding minerals that can slowly enrich the soil. It creates short-term stress but leaves potential long-term benefits.🌋🌬🌿

Yesterday, an ash plume could be seen rising from the #HayliGubbi 🌋 #Volcano region. The eruption had stopped earlier, but the ash plume had been sent up into the atmosphere and was moving at a speed of 100-120 km/h toward North #India. 🛰Meteosat-9 @eumetsat.int