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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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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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CIMSS NOAA Weekly Report

Thank you for submitting an item to the CIMSS-NOAA weekly report! This report is good advertising of our activities to NOAA management. We need to make our accomplishments as easy to read and ...
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Episode 55 of the ongoing eruption of Kilauea on the Big Island of Hawai’i

5-minute GOES-18 SO 2 RGB and Ash RGB images, from 1246-2101 UTC on 17 October Beginning at 1401 UTC, the thermal signature exhibited a 3.9 µm brightness temperature of 137.88ºC (below) — which is the ...
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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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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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CIMSS NOAA Weekly Report

The Passive Microwave Enhanced Sensor Data Record (PMESDR) software package for generating enhanced resolution Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer-3 (AMSR3) L1C imagery and the Algorithm ...
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Brand and Visual Identity

All SSEC / CIMSS content, including project websites, apps, and other digital content must follow UW accessibility guidelines as required by Federal law by April 2027. All SSEC / CIMSS digital content ...
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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 ...
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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 ...