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-16 satellite GeoColor image of Hurricane Harvey at peak intensity on August 25, 2017 at 23:00…
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GOES-16 captured this image of Tropical Storm Harvey traversing the Windward Islands and entering…
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GOES-16 captured this geocolor image of Hurricane Franklin (now a remnant low) on the evening of…
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Brazil is known for lush expanses of rainforests and other vegetated areas, however, closer…
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Primarily a salt flat in Australia, Lake Eyre floods occasionally during heavy periods of rainfall…
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Tropical cyclones have a wide range of wind speeds that are used to classify their intensities.…
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The incredibly accurate 5-day forecasts for Hurricanes Irene and Sandy have illustrated the…
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Five days before Sandy made landfall along the New Jersey coastline, NOAA's National Hurricane…