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Two Views of an Explosive Supercell
Friday, April 9, 2021
GOES West Views an Eruption on Sun’s Surface
Thursday, April 8, 2021
Celebrating 61 Years of Watching Weather from Space
Thursday, April 1, 2021
Barge Backup at the Suez Canal Seen from Space
Monday, March 29, 2021
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Supercell Storms Produce Spate of Tornadoes
Friday, March 26, 2021
Record-breaking Sandstorm Sweeps Through Mainland China
Wednesday, March 24, 2021
NOAA Satellite GOES with the Floe
Tuesday, March 23, 2021
Recent Ohio River Flooding Detected by Satellites
Friday, March 12, 2021
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Sargassum algae amid the Sargasso Sea
Monday, March 8, 2021
Large Iceberg Breaks Off from Antarctica
Wednesday, March 3, 2021
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Mt. Sinabung Spews Ash, Sulfur Dioxide
Tuesday, March 2, 2021
GOES East Watches Smoke Plumes across Southeastern U.S.
Friday, February 26, 2021
Holy Stromboli! Views of Mt. Etna’s Eruptions
Wednesday, February 24, 2021
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GOES East Watches Ice Drifting Across Lake Michigan
Tuesday, February 23, 2021
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Tracking Tropical Cyclone Guambe
Friday, February 19, 2021
NOAA-20 Views Power Outages across Texas
Wednesday, February 17, 2021
Today's Satellite Image: Dust from Western Sahara's Sandy Shores
Tuesday, February 16, 2021
Lunar transit, viewed by DSCOVR on July 16, 2015.
NOAA’s DSCOVR Satellite Celebrates its Sixth Launch-iversary
Thursday, February 11, 2021
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Dust in the Wind over Winter-Bound Europe
Tuesday, February 9, 2021
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Air Over Canada’s Surface Is As Cold As Clouds
Monday, February 8, 2021
Clear Skies Give Satellites a Glimpse of Great Lakes Ice
Friday, February 5, 2021
A Dust Up: GOES East Views a “Clean” Sweep in Texas
Wednesday, February 3, 2021
Cyclones near Australia
Ana and Bina and Lucas (and Eighteen!) — Oh My!
Monday, February 1, 2021
By the Light of the Silvery Moon: NOAA-20 Views Clouds and Snow
Friday, January 29, 2021
East Coast Weather
GOES East Sees Red Snow and Rippling Clouds
Thursday, January 28, 2021
NOAA Satellites Help Locate Flooding After Cyclone in Mozambique
Wednesday, January 27, 2021
Double cyclones over the Atlantic
GOES East Captures Dynamic View of the North Atlantic
Tuesday, January 26, 2021
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Satellites Help Visualize the Polar Vortex
Thursday, January 21, 2021
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GOES West Spies Dynamic Cyclone in the North Pacific
Thursday, January 14, 2021
Winter Storm Leads to Historic Snowfall in Spain
Wednesday, January 13, 2021
NOAA-20 Views South Georgian Icebergs In Transition
Tuesday, January 12, 2021
Maritime Stratocumulus Provide a Mesmerizing View
Thursday, January 7, 2021
Record-Setting Storm “Explodes” While Approaching Alaska
Tuesday, January 5, 2021
GOES East Closely Watching “Runaway” Iceberg
Wednesday, December 30, 2020
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Large Sand Storm Sweeps Across Argentina
Tuesday, December 22, 2020
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Star-Crossed Solstice: The Shortest Day of the Year Coincides with the Great Conjunction
Monday, December 21, 2020
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GOES East Tracks the Season’s First Nor’Easter
Friday, December 18, 2020
GOES East Puts On Its Eclipse Glasses for a Unique View
Tuesday, December 15, 2020
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Desert Winds Blow Dust Plume Over Southwestern Argentina
Friday, December 11, 2020
GOES East Watches World’s Largest Iceberg Drift Beneath the Clouds
Thursday, December 10, 2020
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GOES East Captured Meteor Streaking Over New York State
Friday, December 4, 2020
NOAA’s GOES East Sees Powerful “Winter” Storm over Eastern U.S.
Tuesday, December 1, 2020
“Holey” Clouds Over Michigan Aren’t a Miracle, but a “Supercool” Phenomenon
Monday, November 23, 2020
Cloud Streets and Gravity Waves Seen From GOES-East
Thursday, November 19, 2020
Hurricane Iota + GLM
Hurricane Iota Becomes 2020’s Strongest Hurricane; Threatens Central America
Monday, November 16, 2020
GOES-East Sees Deep Trough in the West
Tuesday, November 10, 2020
Satellite Spots Smoke from Wildfires in South America
Friday, November 6, 2020
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NOAA-20 Views Tian Shan Mountains in China
Wednesday, November 4, 2020
Hurricane Eta Heads toward Central America
Monday, November 2, 2020
GOES-East Watches Hurricane Zeta Strike
Thursday, October 29, 2020
Typhoon Swirls over the South China Sea while Smoke Blankets India
Tuesday, October 27, 2020
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GOES-East Spies Solar Flares and Eruptions
Friday, October 23, 2020
Epsilon Briefly Becomes Major Category-3 Hurricane
Thursday, October 22, 2020
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GOES-East Spies Newly-Formed Tropical Storm Epsilon
Tuesday, October 20, 2020
Cameron Fire Becomes Colorado’s Largest Fire Ever
Thursday, October 15, 2020
Large Haboob Blows Across the High Plains
Wednesday, October 14, 2020
Satellite Provides Synthetic Aperture Radar Imagery of Hurricane Marie
Thursday, October 8, 2020
Delta Intensifies into a Major Hurricane
Tuesday, October 6, 2020
NOAA Satellites See the Birth of Tropical Storm Delta
Monday, October 5, 2020
The Tempest: Storm Alex Slams Into France
Friday, October 2, 2020
NOAA Satellites Watch as California Burns
Thursday, October 1, 2020
NOAA’s GOES-16 Sees the Autumnal Equinox
Tuesday, September 22, 2020
NOAA-20 Spots Rare Mediterranean Hurricane-Like Storm
Friday, September 18, 2020
August billion dollar disasters
At Least Four Billion-Dollar Disasters Struck the U.S. in August
Thursday, September 17, 2020
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NOAA-20 Shows Nighttime Lights and Hurricane Sally
Tuesday, September 15, 2020
Six Tropical Systems Swirl Around Two Oceans
Monday, September 14, 2020
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120 Years Ago Today, the Great Galveston Hurricane Made Landfall
Tuesday, September 8, 2020
Typhoon Maysak Soaks Southern Japan
Tuesday, September 1, 2020
GOES Satellites “See” The World in a Kaleidoscope of Colors
Friday, August 28, 2020
Hurricane Laura Crashes into Louisiana’s Coast
Thursday, August 27, 2020
GOES-West Saw an Eyeful from Space on Tuesday
Wednesday, August 26, 2020
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On This Day in 2017, Hurricane Harvey Slammed into Texas
Tuesday, August 25, 2020
Tropical Storms Marco and Laura Give a One-Two Punch
Monday, August 24, 2020
NOAA Satellites Monitoring Massive Wildfires and Two Cyclones
Thursday, August 20, 2020
Hurricane Genevieve Swirls in the Pacific
Wednesday, August 19, 2020
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Death Valley May Have Hit Its Hottest Temperature in a Century
Monday, August 17, 2020
GOES-West Views Lake Fire’s Explosive Growth
Friday, August 14, 2020
Canada’s Milne Ice Shelf Collapses
Wednesday, August 12, 2020
GOES-East Watches Derecho Slam Midwest
Tuesday, August 11, 2020
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NOAA Satellites Focus On Smoke from Fires across South America
Friday, August 7, 2020
NOAA Updates 2020 Atlantic Hurricane Season Outlook
Thursday, August 6, 2020
Heavy Snow in the Andes has GOES-East Seeing Red this Winter
Wednesday, August 5, 2020
Nishinoshima Volcano Erupts Near Tropical Storm Hagupit
Tuesday, August 4, 2020
Apple Fire Takes a Bite Out of California’s Landscape
Monday, August 3, 2020
Saharan Dust Continues To Blow Over the Atlantic; Hurricane Isaias Forms Near the Bahamas
Friday, July 31, 2020
Siberian Smoke Swirls Over Alaskan Coast
Thursday, July 30, 2020
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GOES-West “Eyes” Hurricane Douglas in the Pacific
Friday, July 24, 2020
GOES-East Witnesses the Birth of Tropical Storm Gonzalo
Wednesday, July 22, 2020
Wyoming Supercells Cause Hail on Earth
Tuesday, July 21, 2020
A Cluster of Storms Clamor Over West Coast of Florida
Friday, July 17, 2020
JPSS Satellites Monitor Historic Flooding in China
Thursday, July 16, 2020
A View of Deadly Minnesota Thunderstorms from Earth Orbit
Friday, July 10, 2020
NOAA-20 Spots Fires Burning in Central Africa
Tuesday, July 7, 2020
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“Wagon Wheel” Clouds Drift Toward Hawaii
Thursday, July 2, 2020
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Haboob Tube: GOES-West Watched Intense Dust Storm Sweep across Nevada
Tuesday, June 30, 2020
Saharan Air Layer Leaves Cuban Storm in the Dust
Thursday, June 25, 2020
Extraordinary Heat and Massive Fires are Scorching Siberia
Monday, June 22, 2020
NOAA Satellite Tracking Dust and Sand Being Blown from Sahara Desert
Thursday, June 18, 2020
GOES-East Zooms in on Wildfires in the West
Tuesday, June 16, 2020
GOES-West Spies Ship Tracks Over the Eastern Pacific
Monday, June 15, 2020