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Large Haboob Blows Across the High Plains
On Oct. 11, 2020, NOAA’s GOES-East satellite watched a huge wall of dust blow more than 300 miles from eastern Colorado to Nebraska,…
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GOES-West Saw an Eyeful from Space on Tuesday
GOES-West captured this dynamic GeoColor imagery of North America, where wildfires have been ravaging…
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Google Harnesses the Power of GOES in New Fire Maps
NOAA’s GOES-16 (GOES-East) and GOES-17 (GOES-West) satellites are helping the public see where active wildfires are and avoid dangerous situations.
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NOAA Satellites Monitoring Massive Wildfires and Two Cyclones
On Aug. 19, 2020, NOAA’s GOES-West satellite captured the above GeoColor image loop of massive wildfire smoke plumes billowing from…
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NOAA Satellites Focus On Smoke from Fires across South America
As NOAA’s satellites focused in on South America on Aug. 7, 2020, they could see smoke plumes from various fires across the continent…
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Saharan Dust Continues To Blow Over the Atlantic; Hurricane Isaias Forms Near the Bahamas
In both visible and infrared imagery, dust can often be confused with clouds such as cirrus, since they are both considered optically thin.
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NOAA-20 Spots Fires Burning in Central Africa
On July 5, 2020, the NOAA-20 satellite captured this True Color imagery of hazy smoke from fires burning across a large portion of central Africa.
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Haboob Tube: GOES-West Watched Intense Dust Storm Sweep across Nevada
On June 28–29, 2020, NOAA’s GOES-West satellite watched a particularly intense dust cloud race across Nevada’s Mojave desert.
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