In South America's Amazon basin, El Niño conditions in 2015 and early 2016 reduced rainfall during the wet season, leaving the region drier at the start of the 2016 dry season than any year since 2002.
Fire, Ice and Clouds Cover Cascades
On Sept. 19, 2012, NASA's Terra satellite collected views of the Three Sisters and Broken Top volcanoes in the Cascade Mountains near Bend, Ore. The accompanying image comprises an eclectic mix of cirrus clouds, glaciers and the Pole Creek Fire, which blazed nearby in the Deschutes National Forest.
