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December 11, 2018
GOES East captured heavy snow cover over the Mid-Atlantic region on Dec. 11, 2018.
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January 16, 2020
On Jan. 15, NOAA-20 viewed a low pressure system that has been bringing snowfall into British Columbia, Canada since Jan. 10…
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December 11, 2017
December 11, 2017 NOAA/NASA's Suomi NPP satellite captured this image of an unusual early-season snow that fell across the South on December 9, 2017…
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February 8, 2018
February 08, 2018 This image, captured by the Suomi NPP satellite's VIIRS instrument compares current snow cover in the Sierra Nevada mountains with…
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January 13, 2021
On Jan. 11, 2021, Europe’s Meteosat-11 satellite captured imagery of the aftermath of…
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March 18, 2021
Satellite imagery shows a late-season snowstorm that dropped record-breaking amounts of snowfall in Cheyenne, Wyoming and Denver, Colorado.
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December 1, 2016
Predicting snowfall amounts is part of NOAA’s mission, and so is measuring the amount of snow already on the ground. Snow not only…
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January 19, 2022
Earth-observing satellites like the Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS) help scientists measure snowfall in remote areas where scientists can’t measure the snow themselves.
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January 18, 2022
Hurricanes, tornadoes, heat waves, and severe snowfalls happen more often than ever. We rely on spacecraft orbiting Earth to warn us of such weather. We also rely on spacecraft to measure climate features, such as the average rainfall in a region.
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November 9, 2020
Looking back 10 years after Snowmageddon.
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October 30, 2019
GOES West is watching an early-season snowstorm that is moving into the Plains and Midwest from the Rocky Mountains, which have…
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December 18, 2019
On the eastern coast of North America on Dec. 18, 2019, the GOES-16 satellite showed a long cold front that stretched from…
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November 19, 2021
JPSS program satellites monitor all types of water globally through weather satellite data. This initiative seeks to best utilize these insights.
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March 22, 2018
he Suomi NPP satellite's VIIRS instrument captured this week's nor'easter moving away from the U.S. East Coast on March 22, 2018. The…
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November 16, 2018
NOAA's GOES East satellite captured this geocolor enhanced image of an early season winter storm moving through the Northeast on…