Photos: Before and after satellite photos of the Bay Area after string of atmospheric rivers

California satellite photo (NASA).

The wettest three-week period the Bay Area has seen in more than 160 years has brought a medley of colors to the region as seen from space. A series of atmospheric rivers have left behind white snow-capped mountains to teal coastal waters created by runoff from overflowing waterways.

Bay Area as seen from NASA’s Aqua satellite. (NASA) 

The natural-color images were taken by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Aqua satellite. NASA’s Earth Observatory compared images taken from Jan. 23, 2022 and Jan. 17, 2023.

When the soil is saturated, water flows into nearby waterways often taking sediment with it  and creating

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