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Earth from Orbit
Parts of the Midwest are cleaning up after thunderstorms barreled through the region on the night of Monday, July 15, 2024, bringing hurricane-force winds and multiple tornadoes around Chicago.
Satellite Snapshots
NOAA’s GOES East (GOES-16) satellite watched severe thunderstorms fire up along a dry line situated in west Texas and western Oklahoma on May 23, 2024.
Satellite Snapshots
NOAA’s GOES East captured Texas storms from above in this visible imagery, which also shows frequent lighting observed with the satellite’s Geostationary Lightning Mapper (GLM) instrument.
Satellite Snapshots
NOAA’s GOES East (GOES-16) satellite watched severe thunderstorms push across the Midwest that spawned several damaging tornadoes.
Satellite Snapshots
NOAA satellite imagery captured lightning illuminating the sky across the South as severe thunderstorms charged eastward.
Satellite Snapshots
Strong to severe storms were captured moving across the Mississippi and Ohio River valleys via satellite imagery.
Earth from Orbit
The remnants of Tropical Storm Ophelia over the Atlantic Ocean combined with a mid-latitude system arriving from the west at a time of year when ocean