Hurricane Paloma was a powerful and late-season storm that formed in the Caribbean Sea in November 2008. It rapidly intensified into a Category 4 hurricane before making landfall on the Cayman Islands and subsequently striking Cuba as a Category 3 hurricane..

• Image 1: Product: MERIS_RR_1P (1200 metre resolution), Satellite: Envisat, Instrument: Medium, Resolution Imaging Spectrometre (MERIS), Acqusition Date: 8 Nov 2008, Orbit number: 34992, Orbit direction: Descending, Band combination: 11, 14, 3 (RGB)
• Image 2: Product: ASA_WSM_1P (150 metre resolution), Satellite: Envisat, Instrument: Advanced Synthetic Aperture Radar (ASAR), Acqusition Date: 08 Nov 2008, Orbit number: 34985, Orbit direction: Ascending