In January 2024, Tropical Cyclone Belal lashed Réunion and Mauritius, islands in the southwest Indian Ocean east of Madagascar, with torrential rain and flooding. The MODIS (Moderate Resolution...
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NASA, Pacific Disaster Center release new landslide hazard alerting capability
By: Chani Goering (Pacific Disaster Center) and Jacob Reed (NASA) Communities worldwide now have access to a powerful tool to increase their awareness of landslide hazards, thanks to NASA and the...
USAID and NASA Renew Partnership to Address Climate Crisis, Food Security, and Humanitarian Challenges
Office of Press Relations press@usaid.gov Today, Administrator Samantha Power signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and the National...
Remembering Mt. Pinatubo: A conversation with NASA Disasters Program Associate Manager, John Murray
By Timothy "Seph" Allen The second-largest volcanic eruption of the 20th century occurred at Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines on June 15, 1991. By far the largest eruption in the past 100 years to...
2020 Tied for Warmest Year on Record, NASA Analysis Shows
Earth's global average surface temperature in 2020 tied with 2016 as the warmest year on record, according to an analysis by NASA. Continuing the planet's long-term warming trend, the year's globally...
St. Vincent & Grenadines + 2 more
Saint Vincent and Martinique volcanic activity 2021
Two volcanoes in the Caribbean have shown signs of increased activity at the end of 2020 – the La Soufrière volcano on Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, and Mount Pelée on Martinique. According to...
Sulfur spews from Taal
January 12 - 13, 2020 In January 2020, the Taal Volcano awoke from 43 years of quiet and spewed lava and ash, filling streets and skies of the Philippine island of Luzon with fine ash fall and...
India + 2 more
NASA Finds Tropical Cyclone Vayu Getting Stretched
Vayu (was 02A) – Northern Indian Ocean June 14, 2019 – Update #2 – NASA Finds Tropical Cyclone Vayu Getting Stretched When NASA’s Aqua satellite passed over the Northern Indian Ocean, it captured an...
2018 fourth warmest year in continued warming trend, according to NASA, NOAA
Earth's global surface temperature in 2018 was the fourth warmest since 1880, according to independent analyses by NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). Global...
NASA Catches Development of Tropical Cyclone Joaninha
Visible imagery from NASA’s Terra satellite showed Tropical Cyclone Joaninha in the Southern Indian Ocean, far to the east of Madagascar. On March 22 the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer...
World + 2 more
2015-2016 El Niño Triggered Disease Outbreaks Across Globe
The 2015-2016 El Niño event brought weather conditions that triggered regional disease outbreaks throughout the world, according to a new NASA study that is the first to comprehensively assess the...
India + 1 more
A flood for the century in India
Abnormally heavy monsoon rains drenched Southeast Asia, leading to the worst flooding in the state of Kerala since 1924. The event, which started with rains on August 8, 2018, displaced over 300,000...
NASA's IMERG Shows Devastating Rainfall Over East Africa
Heavy seasonal rainfall has recently caused flooding in Kenya and NASA analyzed and estimated the total rainfall using data from a suite of satellites and gauges. The heavy rainfall has resulted in...
NASA Catches Tropical Cyclone Ava’s Landfall on Madagascar’s Coast
NASA-NOAA’s Suomi NPP satellite passed over Tropical Cyclone Ava as it made landfall along the coast of northeastern Madagascar. On Jan. 5 at 5:24 a.m. EST (1024 UTC) the Visible Infrared Imaging...
Philippines: NASA Spots Tropical Storm Tembin Form (Dec. 21, 2017 )
NASA's Terra satellite passed over the Northwestern Pacific Ocean and found newly formed Tropical Storm Tembin in the Philippine Sea as it was nearing the southeastern Philippines. On Dec. 20 at 9:05...
GPM Satellite observes Tropical Cyclone Dahlia and landslide potential
On Nov. 29 Tropical Cyclone Dahlia became the first tropical cyclone of the 2017-2018 Southwest Indian Ocean season. The Global Precipitation Measurement Mission or GPM core satellite provided...
NASA sees Ockhi strengthening off southwestern coast of India
When NASA's Aqua satellite passed over Tropical Storm Ockhi, it measured cloud top temperatures that showed strongest storms were off the coast of southwestern India. Infrared data showed Ockhi...
NASA to launch JPSS – 1 global satellite to track extreme weather patterns
By Ray Mwareya, in New York 25 October 2017 Top officials from the World Meteorological Agency (WTA) U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the U.S. National Aeronautics and...
NASA Satellites See Tropical Cyclone Enawo Moving Through Central Madagascar
Tropical Cyclone Enawo continued to move through central Madagascar on a southern track as NASA's Aqua and Terra satellites gathered imagery and data on the powerful storm. The AIRS instrument or...
NASA Sees Powerful Tropical Cyclone Enawo Make Landfall in Madagascar
Tropical Cyclone Enawo was battering the northeastern region of Madagascar when NASA-NOAA's Suomi NPP satellite passed overhead on March 7. Enawo strengthened to the equivalent of a Category 4 or...