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Revisiting the 2025 Guadalupe River, Texas, Flood With New Technology

Back in July of 2025, a devastating flash flood tore through the Hill Country of sosuth-central Texas. The toll of this event was exacerbated by the fact it took place on the morning of Friday, July 4 ...
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Rapidly-intensifying Hurricane Force low in the Bering Sea

10-minute Full Disk scan GOES-18 (GOES-West) Air Mass RGB images (above) depicted a rapidly-intensifying Hurricane Force low as it moved northward across the western Bering Sea from 26-27 October 2026 ...
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Snow cover across parts of Montana

Day Snow-Fog RGB images (above) displayed the signature of snow cover (shades of red) across parts of Montana on. This was remnant snow cover that fell 2 days earlier, accumulating to depths as high ...
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Super Typhoon Champi passes just south of Guam

Target Sector JMA Himawari-9 Infrared Window images (above) showed Super Typhoon Champi as its pinhole eye moved just south of Guam on. The images included hourly plots of surface wind barbs and gusts ...
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Hurricane Isaias reaches Category 3 intensity south of the Gulf Coast, eventually making landfall along the Florida Panhandle

30-second GOES-19 Infrared Window images with plots of GLM Flash Points, from 0930-2100 UTC on 09 October 30-second sunrise-to-sunset GOES-19 CIMSS Natural Color RGB images created using Geo2Grid are ...
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Next Generation Fire System (NGFS) - Experimental

Oct 27 2026: Due to ongoing maintenance, the satellite imagery viewer from the NGFS Notifications Dashboard via SSEC RealEarth is currently unavailable. Please consider accessing NGFS detections and ...
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Three Active Tropical Systems in the Western Pacific

Once again, we see that 2026 continues to bring a large number of tropical systems in the Pacific. This time, we turn our eyes to the western part of our planet’s largest ocean to see a trio of ...
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Lake Effect from Wisconsin’s Lake Winnebago

Lake Winnebago is the largest lake located entirely within the borders of Wisconsin. At 137,000 acres, it has approximately the same area as the famous Lake Geneva (that is, the original Lake Geneva ...
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Post-tropical Cyclone Rachel Makes Landfall in Baja California, Impacts Southeast US

While many of the nation’s meteorological eyes have been along the Gulf Coast as Isaias made just the first Atlantic hurricane landfall of 2026, that wasn’t the only part of the continental United ...
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Tropical Depression Nine forms in the Gulf of Mexico, and is forecast to intensify to become Hurricane Isaias

1-minute GOES-19 Infrared Window images with plots of GLM Flash Points, from 1601 UTC on 06 October to 0200 UTC on 07 October GOES-19 Visible images with an overlay of contours and streamlines of deep ...
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Rapidly-intensifying hurricane force midlatitude cyclone passes over Iceland

EUMETSAT Meteosat-11 Water Vapor images (above) showed a warming/drying signature (shades of yellow to orange) within the core of a rapidly-intensifying hurricane force midlatitude cyclone that ...