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![Metop-C Launch Closes Final Chapter On Historic POES Program](/s3/migrated/METOPC_20181217.jpg)
The Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite (POES) project can claim a number of firsts in its 40-year history…
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![Tropical Cyclone Claudia Loses Strength as it Moves Away from Australia](/s3/migrated/20200114_AustraliaStorm.png)
The NOAA-20 satellite captured this image of Tropical Cyclone Claudia off the northwestern coast of Australia on Jan. 13,…
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![Weird Weather - NOAA Satellites Keep Watch When Weather Gets Weird](/s3/migrated/freezing_rain.png)
From thundersnow to upwards striking lightning, weather on Planet Earth can get pretty weird and NOAA’s fleet of satellites…
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![Florence Floods the Carolinas](/s3/migrated/20180915-HURFlorence0745EST.png)
GOES East captured imagery of Tropical Storm Florence over the Carolinas on Sept. 15, 2018.
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![Tropical Storms Marco and Laura Give a One-Two Punch](https://nesdis-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/styles/webp_large/s3/2023-05/NOAA-logo_16x9_NoBorder.png.webp?itok=qg3l7mLt)
August 24, 2020 On August 24, 2020, NOAA’s GOES-East satellite was tracking two tropical systems, one in the Gulf of Mexico…
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![NOAA-20 Spots Rare Mediterranean Hurricane-Like Storm](/s3/migrated/20200917-Medicane.jpg)
The NOAA-20 satellite zoomed in on a hurricane-like storm over the Mediterranean, known as a "medicane," as it…
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![Super Typhoon Rai Pummels the Philippines](/s3/2021-12/Typhoon-Rai-12-17-21.jpg)
The Himawari-8 satellite, operated by our partners at the Japan Meteorological Agency, has been closely monitoring Typhoon…
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![GeoXO Imager (GXI)](https://nesdis-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/styles/webp_large/s3/2023-05/NOAA-logo_16x9_NoBorder.png.webp?itok=qg3l7mLt)
GeoXO will provide real-time, high-resolution visible and infrared imagery for monitoring Earth’s weather, oceans, and…
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![Record-Setting Storm “Explodes” While Approaching Alaska](/s3/2021-06/20210104_paclow2%282%29_0.gif)
A powerful low-pressure system intensifies and moves across the northern Pacific Ocean toward Alaska, winds were recorded at…
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![Jason-3 Satellite to Bolster Hurricane-Intensity Forecasts, Continue Tracking Global Sea-Level Rise](/s3/migrated/sea_level3.jpg)
Jason-3, the latest in a series of satellites that tracks the rate of global sea-level rise and can help NOAA more…
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![Ex-Hurricane Ophelia Batters Coast of Ireland Oct. 16th](/s3/migrated/2121v1_20171016-HUROphelia.png)
The Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite instrument aboard the NOAA/NASA Suomi NPP satellite captured this image.
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![The Twelve Days of "Storm and Stress"](/s3/migrated/20201002_StormAlex_0.gif)
Thursday, December 24, 2020 Earlier this month, a young weather fan’s mother contacted our offices at NOAA’s Center for…
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![NOAA Satellite Tracking Dust and Sand Being Blown from Sahara Desert](/s3/migrated/20200616_SaharaDust_b.gif)
GOES-East satellite captured this GeoColor imagery of an expansive plume of dust from the Sahara Desert traveling westward.
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![Earth Woke Up Like This](/s3/2021-06/CIRA-FD-10.png)
Every morning NOAA’s GOES-16 Satellite takes in an amazing view of Earth.
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![NESDIS Reflects on FY 2019](/s3/2021-06/2020-01-28.png)
2019r was a busy one for NESDIS. We wanted to take some time to look back at our accomplishments...