El Nino: The weather of 2015 captured in one image

By Peter Hannam
Updated January 12 2016 - 10:13am, first published January 1 2016 - 3:08am
By area affected, this year's El Nino is larger than the 1997-98 monster event, NASA says. Photo: NASA
By area affected, this year's El Nino is larger than the 1997-98 monster event, NASA says. Photo: NASA
Flood water is pumped out of pubs, after flooding, in York, England on Monday. Photo: PA
Flood water is pumped out of pubs, after flooding, in York, England on Monday. Photo: PA
An early season bushfire in the NSW Blue Mountains in August. Photo: Wolter Peeters
An early season bushfire in the NSW Blue Mountains in August. Photo: Wolter Peeters
By area affected, this year's El Nino is larger than the 1997-98 monster event, NASA says. Photo: NASA
By area affected, this year's El Nino is larger than the 1997-98 monster event, NASA says. Photo: NASA

There were many photographs that encapsulated the past year of weather extremes of fierce heatwaves, dangerous floods and wild winds but perhaps the most telling is a computer-coloured satellite image from space.

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