The Himawari-9 satellite captured this view of Category 5 Super Typhoon Mawar churning in the Pacific Ocean west of Guam on May 25, 2023. (Credit: CIRA/RAMMB Slider)

Super Typhoon Mawar

It's also one of the strongest storms ever recorded in the month of May — and it's pushing up waves topping out at nearly 65 feet high.

With Winds at 175 Miles Per Hour, and Gusts Near 210, Super Typhoon Mawar Is Earth's Strongest Storm of 2023

A "smokestorm" swirls over North America, as seen by the GOES-16 satellite on May 20, 2023. (Credit: Screenshot of animation RAMMB/CIRA Slider animation)

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Watch a satellite animation showing a low pressure system entraining a massive amount of smoke from numerous forest fires blazing in Canada.

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A pair of tornadoes take a destructive path through northern Oklahoma farmyards near Cherokee

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Sea surface temperature anomalies on April 29, 2023. Orange and red tones show areas with warmer than average temperatures. (Credit: University of Maine Climate Reanalyzer)

The Oceans Heat Up

As La Niña recedes in the rearview mirror and El Niño looms ahead, more warming records could soon be broken.

Record Ocean Heating Spike May Herald Acceleration of Global Warming

Traversing through the waters in the Sindh Province of Pakistan on September 8, 2022. (Credit: Afad Tuncay/Shutterstock).

Floods in Sindh Province Pakistan

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Researchers paired a century of real-life storm data with artificial intelligence. The result could improve hurricane-proof building designs.

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The scar left in the landscape by one of the tornados that struck Alabama and Mississippi on March 24, 2023 is visible in this image captured the next day by the Landsat 9 satellite. (Credit: NASA Earth Observatory)

Tornado Scar Seen From Space

The twister was one of 20 reported in Alabama and Mississippi on March 24.

Mississippi Tornado Scoured the Land so Violently it Left a Scar That's Visible From Space

Lightning striking a neighborhood. (Credit: Wesley West/Shutterstock)

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