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50 Years After Hurricane Camille, NOAA Satellites Keep U.S. Weather-Ready
In the late evening hours of August 17, 1969, a catastrophic storm named Hurricane Camille slammed into the Gulf Coast. A…
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Algae Bloom in Lake Erie Poses Major Health Threat
A Harmful Algal Bloom (HAB), seen by the Sentinel-2 satellite, has been growing in Lake Erie for the past few weeks, and now covers…
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Low Pressure System Over Atlantic Ocean is Hurtling Toward the United Kingdom
This past week the United Kingdom (UK) has experienced nasty weather and torrential rains, which brought flooding, power outages, and…
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Himawari-8 Observes Trio of Tropical Storms in the Western Pacific
A triangle of tropical storm systems in the Western Pacific Ocean was seen by Japan’s Himawari-8 satellite on Tuesday, August 6, 2019…
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GOES East Monitors Saharan Dust
GOES East is ideally located to detect Saharan dust blowing across the Atlantic Ocean, as shown in this GeoColor image on August 1,…
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Smoke from Siberian wildfires reaches the Western U.S.
The Suomi-NPP Ozone Mapping and Profiler Suite (OMPS) aerosol index shows smoke moving across eastern Russia into Alaska, down the west…
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NOAA Satellites Monitor Arctic Wildfires
This true-color composite image of smoke from Arctic wildfires spreading across Alaska and Canada was captured by both GOES East and…
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True color imagery of smoke and fire on the northern coast of Australia, as seen by NOAA-20, July 2019.
NOAA-20 Sees Plumes of Smoke From Bushfires
Clear skies over Australia on July 16, 2019, gave the NOAA-20 polar-orbiting satellite an unobstructed view of smoke plumes from…