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Atmospheric Rivers Hit West Coast
From late Dec. 2022 into Jan. 2023, a series of nine “atmospheric rivers” dumped a record amount of rain and mountain snow across the western U.S.
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Earth from Orbit: NOAA’s GOES-18 is now GOES West
NOAA’s operational satellite fleet has a new member. GOES-18 entered service as GOES West on Jan. 4, 2023.
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Announcement
NASA Awards Modification to Refurbish Instrument for NOAA’s JPSS
On behalf of NOAA, NASA has awarded a sole source contract modification to Northrop Grumman for the JPSS ATMS EDU refurbishment.
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Announcement
NOAA’s GeoXO Program Approved
The Department of Commerce has formally approved NOAA’s next-generation geostationary satellite program, Geostationary Extended Observations (GeoXO).
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NOAA Satellites See Hawaii’s Mauna Loa Volcano Eruption
On Nov. 28, 2022, the world’s largest active volcano began erupting for the first time since 1984. Mauna Loa, located on Hawaii’s Big Island, began sp
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The 2022 Atlantic Hurricane Season Comes to a Close
The 2022 Atlantic Hurricane Season officially came to a close on Nov. 30, but the impact of Hurricanes Ian, Nicole and Fiona — which brought extensive
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JPSS-2 Launches to Space
On Nov. 10, just before 2 a.m. Pacific time, an Atlas V 401 rocket carrying NOAA’s Joint Polar Satellite System-2 (JPSS-2), the third in a series of f
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Wildfires Erupt in the Pacific Northwest
A series of recent wildfires ignited or spread this past week as warm, dry, and windy conditions—a rarity for the rainy Pacific Northwest.
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