Sunny Skies Over Antarctica

Sunny Skies Over Antarctica

Sunny skies and westerly winds prevailed over the Antarctic Peninsula on April 24, 2012. Cloudy weather had just moved out, and temperatures rose well above freezing as the MODIS sensor on NASA's Terra satellite passed overhead and captured a natural-color image.

Flooding Along the Souris River

Flooding Along the Souris River

On Sunday, June 26, the Souris River crested in Minot, N.D., with flooding reaching depths of 14 feet in some places. Rising more than four feet in just 18 hours on Friday, June 24, the river flooded some 4,000 homes as it raged through the city at a rate of 27,600 cubic feet per second, five times the fastest rate recorded during the last three decades.