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![Tropical Cyclone Freddy Breaks Records before Lashing Madagascar](/s3/2023-02/2023_02_24_TropicalCycloneFreddy_STILL_NO_TEXT.png)
Around 7:20 p.m. local time on February 21, 2023, Tropical Cyclone Freddy made landfall on the eastern coast of Madagascar…
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![Two Orbits, One Mission: NOAA Satellites Work Together to Provide Critical Data for Weather Forecasts](https://nesdis-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/styles/webp_large/s3/2023-05/NOAA-logo_16x9_NoBorder.png.webp?itok=qg3l7mLt)
Friday, June 26, 2020 NOAA maintains a fleet of satellites to monitor Earth’s weather, environment and climate. These…
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![Tropical Cyclone Amphan Heads Toward India and Bangladesh](/s3/migrated/20200518_amphan-himavis-b.gif)
On May 18, 2020, the Himawari-8 satellite caught this imagery of Tropical Cyclone Amphan, heading toward the border of India…
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![Lift-off is just the beginning: Jason-3 readies for new milestones](/s3/2021-07/jason3_spacex_falcon9.jpg)
The successful launch of Jason-3 on January 17, 2016, was a major accomplishment for the Jason mission, but it is by no…
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Satellites are a valuable tool for monitoring Earth’s oceans, which cover more than 70 percent of our planet. This…
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![Rare Tropical Storm Akará Forms off Brazilian Coast](/s3/2024-03/2-19-2024_Tropical_Storm_Akara-2.png)
NOAA’s GOES East satellite witnessed a rare event in the South Atlantic, as Tropical Depression 01Q strengthened into…
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![JASON-3 Mission](https://nesdis-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/styles/webp_large/s3/2023-05/NOAA-logo_16x9_NoBorder.png.webp?itok=qg3l7mLt)
Jason-3 is a satellite mission that supports scientific, commercial and practical applications related to sea level rise,…
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![On Earth Day, Explore The 4.5 Billion-Year-Old Origins of Earth](/s3/2021-08/20120828-HURIssac.jpg)
April 22, 2020 This special day, first celebrated in 1970, has undergone many changes from its humble beginning. As we look…
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![NOAA Women in Data](/s3/migrated/Pam_Sullivan.jpg)
Women make up nearly half of our country's workforce, but only about 25 percent are employed in STEM (science,…
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![Five Reasons GOES-S will be a Game-Changer for Weather Forecasts in the Western U.S.](/s3/2021-07/GOES_East_GOES_West_Orbital_Positions.jpg)
Excitement is building for the launch of GOES-S. On March 1, 2018, NOAA’s newest geostationary satellite will launch into…
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![Lift-off is Just the Beginning: Jason-3 Readies for New Milestones](/s3/migrated/jason3_spacex_falcon9.jpg)
The successful launch of Jason-3 on January 17, 2016, was a major accomplishment for the Jason mission, but it is by no…
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![Nishinoshima Volcano Erupts Near Tropical Storm Hagupit](/s3/migrated/2020-08-04.gif)
August 04, 2020 On Aug. 1, 2020, the Himawari-8 satellite, operated by our partners at the Japan Meteorological Agency,…
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![First Light Image From NOAA-21’s ATMS Sensor](/s3/2022-11/atms-sensor-first-image-noaa-21.png)
The Advanced Technology Microwave Sounder (ATMS) instrument onboard the NOAA-21 satellite captured its first global image on…
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![La Nina](/s3/migrated/LaNina.png)
Whereas El Nino is associated with warmer than normal temperatures in the equatorial Pacific, La Nina is the reverse -- a…
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![Cyclone Tracks](/s3/migrated/Dorian.jpg)
NCEI's global inventory of tropical cyclones, IBTrACS, lets forecasters analyze current storms in the context of…