• 3 min read Dry-Season Floods Drench Northern Colombia Villages and farmland were swamped after unusually heavy early-February rains pushed the Sinú River over its banks • NASA Earth Observatory Landsat 9-OLI Floods Surface Water February is one of the driest months of the year in northern Colombia’s Córdoba department, a major farming and cattle region • It’s the time of year when farmers normally prepare fields for planting and ranchers move livestock to graze in drying floodplains • In 2026, however, unusually heavy rains in early February upended seasonal rhythms and submerged much of the department under floodwaters • TheOLI(Operational Land Imager) onLandsat 9captured thisfalse-colorimage (bands7-5-4) of flooding along the Sinú River on February 9, 2026 (right) • Dark floodwaters cover farmland, pastureland, and several communities, particularly to the west of the river

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  • February is one of the driest months of the year in northern Colombia’s Córdoba department, a major farming and cattle region. It’s the time of year when farmers normally prepare fields for planting and ranchers move livestock to graze in drying floodplains. In 2026, however, unusually heavy rains in early February upended seasonal rhythms and submerged much of the department under floodwaters. The OLI (Operational Land Imager) on Landsat 9 captured this false-color image (bands 7-5-4) of flooding along the Sinú River on February 9, 2026 (right). Dark floodwaters cover farmland, pastureland, a

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