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Tropical Cyclone Belal

Réunion and Mauritius, islands in the southwest Indian Ocean, were lashed by the basin’s strongest storm system so far in the 2023–2024 season.

This image originally appeared in the NASA Earth Observatory story Tropical Cyclone Belal.

NASA Earth Observatory images by Wanmei Liang, using MODIS data from NASA EOSDIS LANCE and GIBS/Worldview. VIIRS data from NASA EOSDIS LANCE, GIBS/Worldview, and the Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS). Story by Kathryn Hansen.

Published January 16, 2024
Data acquired January 14 - 15, 2024

Sources:: NOAA-20 > VIIRS; Terra > MODIS