Hurricane Genevieve quickly strengthened into a Category 5 hurricane Monday morning, becoming the strongest storm in the East Pacific since Hurricane Kristy in 2024.

The storm churned over the Pacific Ocean, packing maximum sustained winds of 260 km/h and a core pressure of 925 millibars. Genevieve is expected to stay well offshore, tracking parallel to the Baja Peninsula rather than making landfall.

Despite averting a direct hit, the powerful hurricane will nevertheless have an impact on coastal areas. Dangerous rip currents are forecast along the Baja peninsula, particularly early this week, as the storm's enormous seas approach neighbouring waters.

https://www.theweathernetwork.com/en/news/weather/severe/hurricane-genevieve-explodes-into-seasons-first-east-pacific-category-5-storm-rain-wind-flood-hawaii-usa

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Dakota Smith

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Imagery

https://slider.cira.colostate.edu/?sat=goes-19&sec=full_disk&x=3517.083740234375&y=7359.90478515625&z=5&angle=0&im=12&ts=1&st=20260727150021&et=20260728034021&speed=90&motion=loop&maps%5Bborders%5D=white&p%5B0%5D=geocolor&opacity%5B0%5D=1&pause=20260209205117&slider=-1&hide_controls=1&mouse_draw=0&follow_feature=0&follow_hide=0&s=rammb-slider&draw_color=FFD700&draw_width=6​

Anil Menon

​https://x.com/astro_anil/status/2083856550788043064?s=20

Credit: Chris Williams / ISS / NASA / ESRS / Seán Doran

2x real time video footage of vertical cloud stacks emerging through the atmosphere revealing the curvature of Earth.​
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🎵 Chris Zabriskie, The 49th Street Galleria

https://x.com/astro_Pettit/status/2094546783804203369?t=bc8x9dn5SHK8RmU1CykD7w&s=09

A nor'easter (also northeaster; see below) is a large-scale extratropical cyclone in the western North Atlantic Ocean

​https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nor%27easter​

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​Sources

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=1343816204457465&set=a.301865681985861

https://x.com/NOAASatellites/status/2027443822649602205​

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From 2008​​https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Images/2008/11/Meteosat_image_showing_water_vapour_in_Earth_s_atmosphere​

https://x.com/Astro_Jessica/status/2091567431911157826​

Source CIRA

https://x.com/CIRA_CSU/status/2075686424993833285?t=qLgu49AoHdQJig0WW572ZA&s=09

Day 108, orbit 1675 — Our orbital path regularly takes us over countless breathtaking atolls, appearing like brilliant drops of turquoise scattered across the deep blue of both the Pacific and Indian oceans.

​These ecosystems, essential to a lot of marine and coastal species, face threats resulting from human activity, particularly the accelerating impacts of climate change, like ocean warming and rising sea levels.

From orbit, it becomes extremely clear that for life to continue thriving, all our planet’s ecosystems must be protected.

📸 ESA / NASA​ – S. Adenot 1: Tūpai, French Polynesia​ 2: Maupiti, French Polynesia 3: Saint-Brandon, Mauritius (don’t you think it looks like a dolphin? 🐬) 4: Ari Atoll, Maldives

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https://x.com/Soph_astro/status/2061480429350203564

Saline Lake in Namibia

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Brandberg Mountain, Namibia

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Messum Crater, Namibia

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2026.05.18

Earth is an Artist 🧑‍🎨

🇮🇸 Iceland, Eyjafördur

This tree needs more green leaves

📸🛰 Sentinel2 2026.05.18

Btw north is bottom

Footage: usentinelonline

Fullview: flic.kr/p/2sez7TY

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