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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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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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Episode 55 of the ongoing eruption of Kilauea on the Big Island of Hawai’i

Episode 55 of the ongoing eruption of Kilauea (Episode 1 began on 23 December 2024) commenced at 1319 UTC on 17 October 2026. 5-minute PACUS Sector GOES-18 (GOES-West) SO2 RGB and Ash RGB images ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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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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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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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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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Late September Nor’easter

5-minute GOES-19 Mid-level Water Vapor images with overlays of surface wind barbs, peak wind gusts and surface pressure contours/fronts — from 1041 UTC on 25 September to 0001 UTC on 28 September ...
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Fall Equinox 2026: There GOES Summer!

Today is the Fall Equinox in the northern hemisphere and a great opportunity to show off some full disk GOES images. The passing of the seasons has always been marked by humans, sometimes because of ...
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Eruption of Anak Krakatau in Indonesia

Large #eruption of #Krakatau #volcano (#Indonesia) started at ~16:30 UTC on Sept 4, and is continuing as of 13:00 UTC on Sept 5. #NOAA-20 OMPS satellite data showing injection of ~0.2 Tg SO? into the ...