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Winter storm seen from space over the US. It is grey and white clouds.
NOAA Satellites Monitor Massive Winter Storm
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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Image of clouds over Antarctica from space.
A Mesospheric Marvel: Rare Clouds Spotted via Satellite
The Himawari-9 satellite, captured imagery of polar mesospheric clouds—also known as noctilucent clouds—over Antarctica.
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Image of clouds over Michigan.
Mesmerizing “Cloud Streets” Stream Off Lake Michigan
NOAA’s GOES East satellite used its Advanced Baseline Imager to capture this mesmerizing GeoColor image of cloud streets streaming off Lake Michigan.
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Image of clouds over the pacific northwest United States.
Atmospheric Rivers Drench the Pacific Northwest
NOAA satellites are closely monitoring a strong atmospheric river that has been bringing excessive rainfall, flooding, and high elevation snow.
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Image of infrared water vapor imagery of the entire united states in July 2023
Intense Storms in the Northeast Cause Catastrophic Flooding
Intense rainstorms that left a trail of damage across the Northeast brought particularly heavy rain and flooding to Vermont.
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GOES-7 visible satellite image from the afternoon on March 13, 1993, showing the large extent of the Storm of the Century—spanning from Canada to Central America.
The Storm of the Century: A Look Back from NOAA Satellites
The Storm of the Century: A Look Back from NOAA Satellites
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Image of rope clouds
Earth from Orbit: Rope Clouds
On Jan. 25, 2023, NOAA satellites captured an unusually long and long-lived rope cloud produced by a cold front over the Gulf of Mexico.
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Image of rope clouds
Rope Clouds
In satellite meteorology, a rope cloud is a very long narrow, rope-like band of cumulus cloud formations.