NOAA’s GOES East (GOES-16) satellite watched severe thunderstorms that brought tornadoes, damaging winds and flooding rain to eastern Texas and Louisiana from April 28–29, 2024.

NOAA satellite imagery captured lightning illuminating the sky across the South as severe thunderstorms charged eastward.

Strong to severe storms were captured moving across the Mississippi and Ohio River valleys via satellite imagery.

NOAA satellites are closely monitoring a strong atmospheric river that has been bringing excessive rainfall, flooding, and high elevation snow.

NOAA satellites constantly monitor the oceans for tropical activity. As the 2023 Atlantic hurricane season comes to a close, we’re looking back at this above-normal season.

Hurricane Otis made landfall on Mexico’s southern Pacific coast, at 1:25 a.m. CDT as a Category 5 hurricane with sustained winds of 165 mph.

Twenty-five years ago, Hurricane Mitch formed, and was one of the strongest and most intense Atlantic hurricanes on record.

On Wednesday, Oct. 25, Hurricane Otis made landfall near Acapulco, on Mexico’s southern Pacific coast, at 1:25 a.m. CDT as a Category 5 hurricane with