2021 was a wild year in more ways than one--or 10--and even from orbit, NOAA's satellites saw an eyeful. From devastating hurricanes to raging wildfires and erupting volcanoes, our Top-10 List of satellite imagery from this year runs the gamut:
More pyrocumuluonimbus storms fired up over and around California’s Dixie Fire, as seen from NOAA’s GOES-17 satellite, on July 19, 2021. The fire burned across more than 960,000 acres and wasn’t fully contained until late October 2021.A supercell thunderstorm caught bubbling over Texas by NOAA’s GOES-16 infrared channel on April 28, 2021 dropped incredibly large hail across parts of the state.
This hailstone fell from the thunderstorm near Hondo, Texas, with a weight of 1.26 pounds and a circumference of 19.73 inches—a Texas state record.NOAA’s GOES-16 satellite tracked a major atmospheric river event on its water vapor channel from October 22-25, 2021. The dark green represents the deepest moisture that blasted California with heavy rain, flash flooding and some localized landslides. Several locations in California saw their wettest October day on record.
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