NOAA’s satellites monitor the Earth’s environment in real-time every day, capturing storms, floods, fires, lightning, and other major events that affect us and the world around us. This gallery features our most iconic images from weather events that significantly impacted our lives.
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GOES-West captured this dynamic GeoColor imagery of North America, where wildfires have been…
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In August 2020, the contiguous U.S. saw at least four different billion-dollar disasters.
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Day/Night band imagery shows us nighttime views of clouds and lights. This image was captured by…
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This Image of the Day shows before-and-after imagery from the Great Galveston hurricane of 1900.
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On Aug. 19, 2020, NOAA’s GOES-West satellite captured the above GeoColor image loop of massive…
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As NOAA’s satellites focused in on South America on Aug. 7, 2020, they could see smoke plumes from…
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August 04, 2020 On Aug. 1, 2020, the Himawari-8 satellite, operated by our partners at the Japan…
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In both visible and infrared imagery, dust can often be confused with clouds such as cirrus, since…