Using satellite recordings from all three meteorological organisations, a composite video showing every single storm from 2015 is quite the spectacle. Taking in cyclones in the Indian Ocean, storms battering Vanuatu and synchronised weather events in the eastern Pacific Ocean, the 12 months of wind, rain, snow and sun shows just how comprehensive our knowledge of Earth’s meteorology has become. The actual graphics you see are composed of a satellite infrared data layer superimposed over NASA’s ‘Blue Marble Next Generation’ ground maps, which change with the seasons. Global events like winter storms, windstorms and flooding culminated for a 2015 chock-full of weather records around the world. 14 landfalls hit the northern hemisphere alone, with 2015 also the warmest year since records began.