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Weather Images
Earth image made of many satellite pictures taken in 1992 as Hurricane Andrew hit the Louisiana coast.
Hurricane Andrew		 Powerful electrical storm hours before the launch of STS-8.
Electrical storm
over launch pad		 Compter-generated image of Hurricane Fran using data from the GOES weather satellites.
Hurricane Fran
Hurricane Floyd hit the U.S. East Coast in September 1999.
Hurricane Floyd		 Tropical Storm Florence as captured by Earth-orbiting SeaWIFS instrument.
Tropical Storm Florence		 Image taken by the orbiting SeaWiFS instrument of Typhoon Man-Yi over the Northwest Pacific Ocean in August 2001.
Typhoon Man-Yi
Typhoon-generated waves striking a breakwater in Japan.
Typhoon in Japan		 Wind-driven waves threaten to inundate homes in Miami, Florida, in September 1945.
Hurricane waves in Miami		 Storm surge pushing water ashore during hurricane.
Storm surge during hurricane
Rough weather for lighthouse keepers.
Lighthouse		 The Great Mississippi River flood of 1927.
1927 Mississippi
River flood		 Standing tall on North Dakota snow--a March blizzard nearly buried utility poles.
Blizzard in N. Dakota
Power and tele[phone lines sagging after heavy ice storm.
Power lines
sag with ice		 Approaching thunderstorm. Rain-cooled air from the storm moves out ahead of the storm and plows under the warm moist air forming a flat shelf cloud.
Approaching
thunderstorm		 Multiple cloud-to-ground and cloud-to-cloud lightning strokes during a thunderstorm.
Lightning strokes
Time-lapse photography captures multiple cloud-to-ground lightning strokes during a thunderstorm.
Lightning strokes		 Photo of lightning striking the Eiffel Tower, June 3, 1902.
Lightning strikes
Eiffel Tower		 Lightning storm over Boston, 1967.
Lightning strikes
over Boston
Oldest known tornado photo taken near Howard, South Dakota, August 28, 1884.
Oldest Tornado Photo		 Tornado south of Dimmitt, Texas, June 1995.
1995 Texas Tornado		 Tornado in Cordell, Oklahoma, May 1981.
1985 Oklahoma Tornado
Tornado in Union City, Oklahoma, May 1973.
1973 Oklahoma tornado		 A Waterspout off the Florida Keys photographed from an aircraft.
Waterspout		 Dust storm approaching Stratford, Texas, April 18, 1935.
1935 dust storm
in Texas
Mammatus clouds photographed in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Mammatus clouds		 Turbulent clouds in Norman, Oklahoma
Turbulent clouds		 Mammatus clouds photographed near Douglas, Oklahoma.
Mammatus clouds
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