NOAA’s satellites monitor the Earth’s environment in real-time every day, capturing storms, floods, fires, lightning, and other major events that affect us and the world around us. This gallery features our most iconic images from weather events that significantly impacted our lives.
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On May 18, 2020, the Himawari-8 satellite caught this imagery of Tropical Cyclone Amphan, heading…
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The first typhoon of 2020 has formed in the western Pacific Ocean and is expected to make landfall…
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Some hurricane damage can’t be captured by photographs; these storms can inflict profound harm to…
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On the morning of Saturday, April 25, 2020, the GOES-East satellite spied dark, dense smoke…
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The Suomi-NPP satellite captured imagery of fires dotting Kansas as it passed overhead.
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On March 24, 2020, NOAA’s GOES-East satellite zoomed in on wispy smoke plumes from fires burning in…
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On March 8, 2020, the GOES-East satellite viewed the Washington, D.C. metro area as haziness…
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NOAA-20 satellite observed smoke plumes from fires burning in Cambodia, Laos, and Myanmar.