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Winter storm seen from space over the US. It is grey and white clouds.
NOAA Satellites Monitor Massive Winter Storm
Jan 30, 2026
NOAA satellites have been closely monitoring a massive winter storm that swept across the United States, bringing heavy snow, ice, and dangerous cold.
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A rendering of the GOES and JPSS circling earth seen from space.
2025: The View from NOAA Satellites
Dec 22, 2025
It was a busy – and successful – year for NOAA’s Satellite and Information Service. We celebrated 50 years of NOAA’s GOES satellites in 2025.
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ABI imagery of flooding over texas seen from space.
NOAA Satellites Inform Warning for the Texas Hill Country Floods
Sep 30, 2025
In the early hours of July 4, 2025 a devastating flash flood occurred in the Central Texas Hill Country. The Guadalupe River in Kerr County rose over twenty feet in just a few hours, and more than a hundred people lost their lives and thousands of…
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2017 megaflash lightning
NOAA Satellites Help Certify World’s Longest Lightning Flash
Aug 4, 2025
A reanalysis of GOES-16 satellite data revealed a record-breaking lightning megaflash that stretched 515 miles across the southern U.S. in 2017, now certified by the WMO as the longest ever recorded.
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Lightning seen from space over the mid-west of the United States.
Lightning Safety Awareness Week: Detecting Lightning From Space
Jun 26, 2025
Lightning is a dangerous weather hazard that poses a significant threat to life and property. It can strike at any time, but is most common in the summer months.
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Predicting Lightning Before it Strikes with NOAA’s LightningCast
Jun 26, 2025
LightningCast uses artificial intelligence (AI) to predict general locations where lightning is most likely to occur.
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Hurricane Michael seen from space.
Hurricane Insights from NOAA Satellites
Jun 25, 2025
The job of forecasting is with NOAA’s National Weather Service (NWS), but the Center for Satellite Applications and Research (STAR), a program office within the National Satellite and Information Service (NESDIS)
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Earth as seen from space by the GOES-U/19 Satellite.
NOAA’s GOES-U Satellite: One Year Later
Jun 25, 2025
On June 25, 2024, GOES-U, the final satellite in NOAA’s GOES-R Series, launched from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.