Feature Story
On May 6, 2024, NOAA and the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) hosted a joint workshop on the potential for artificial intelligence (AI) to transform weather prediction.
Satellite Snapshots
NOAA’s GOES East (GOES-16) satellite watched severe thunderstorms push across the Midwest that spawned several damaging tornadoes.
Satellite Snapshots
NOAA’s GOES East (GOES-16) satellite watched severe thunderstorms that brought tornadoes, damaging winds and flooding rain to eastern Texas and Louisiana from April 28–29, 2024.
Announcement
On May 1, 2024, NOAA posted a Request for Information (RFI) for the on-ramping of additional vendors to the Radio Occultation Data Buy II (RODB-2) multiple award vendor Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) pool.
Satellite Snapshots
The Himawari-9 satellite, operated by our partners at the Japan Meteorological Agency, monitored sulfur dioxide erupting from the Ruang volcano in Indonesia, then expanding and diffusing throughout the surrounding atmosphere from April 17–18, 2024.
Satellite Snapshots
Composite of 2017 and 2024 total solar eclipses
Earth from Orbit
The world is currently experiencing a global coral bleaching event, according to NOAA scientists. This is the fourth global event on record and the second in the last 10 years.
Satellite Snapshots
The GEO-KOMPSAT 2A satellite watches strong winds carry a large dust plume from the Gobi Desert.