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May 13, 2021
NOAA satellites captured von Kármán vortices streaming around Guadalupe Island. These are vortex patterns in stratocumulus clouds near islands.
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February 5, 2018
A spiral cloud appears just off the southern California coast in this image seen by the Suomi NPP satellite's VIIRS instrument on February 1, 2018.
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May 14, 2019
A spiraling cloud pattern, known as a von Kármán vortex, formed off the west coast of Mexico’s Baja California Peninsula on May 13, 2019.
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April 14, 2021
GOES East viewed von Kármán clouds flowing around Mexico’s Guadalupe Island.
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November 3, 2016
Himawari-8 spies an island creating swirling cloud streets in the East China Sea.
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January 10, 2020
The NOAA-20 satellite captured this lovely image of a dual set of von Kármán vortices by the Cape Verde Islands (Republic of Cabo…
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February 20, 2020
GOES East spied spiral cloud eddies called von Kármán vortices off the Canary Islands on Feb. 20, 2020.
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February 22, 2016
Space. It's the final frontier and also happens to be where NOAA operates the Nation's environmental satellites. But where is "space," exactly?