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![Tropical Cyclone Mocha Roars Through the Bay of Bengal](/s3/2023-05/5-18-2023-mocha-eye-approaches.gif)
On May 14, 2023, Japan’s Himawari-9 satellite tracked Tropical Cyclone Mocha as the powerful storm moved over the Bay of…
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![Thunderstorms Rattle the South](/s3/2024-04/animation-of-thunderstorms-from-space-over-the-us-april-2024-still.png)
NOAA satellite imagery captured lightning illuminating the sky across the South as severe thunderstorms charged eastward.
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![Wildfire Smoke Gets Trapped in Low Pressure System Over Russia](/s3/migrated/20190721-russia.jpg)
Smoke from active wildfires burning across northern Russia got caught in a low pressure system near the Verkhne-Tazovsky…
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![NOAA Satellites Monitor Arctic Wildfires](/s3/migrated/iod-july-25.png)
This true-color composite image of smoke from Arctic wildfires spreading across Alaska and Canada was captured by both GOES…
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![GOES East Catches Glimpse of SpaceX Launch](/s3/2021-07/20190412-floridarocket.jpg)
SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy, the world’s most powerful operational rocket, launched the communications satellite Arabsat-6A into…
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![Powerful Nor'easter Batters the U.S. East Coast](/s3/2021-07/2174v1_20180104-noreaster.jpeg)
NOAA's GOES East satellite captured this geocolor enhanced image of a powerful nor'easter moving up the U.S.…
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![Cameron Fire Becomes Colorado’s Largest Fire Ever](/s3/migrated/iodcameronfire.gif)
On October 14, 2020, the GOES-East satellite viewed the Cameron Peak Fire near Ft. Collins, CO, which has been burning for…
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![NOAA-20 Sees Two Cyclones Developing in the Southern Hemisphere](/s3/migrated/20200403_TwoCyclones.png)
NOAA-20 captured this imagery of two tropical cyclones that developed in the Southern Hemisphere. The…
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![Long Squall Line Seen on GOES-East](https://nesdis-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/styles/webp_large/s3/2023-05/NOAA-logo_16x9_NoBorder.png.webp?itok=qg3l7mLt)
April 29, 2020 On the night of April 28, 2020, the GOES-East satellite, via Band 2 of the Advanced Baseline Imager (ABI),…
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![Building Omega Block Scorches Southern California](https://nesdis-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/styles/webp_large/s3/2023-05/NOAA-logo_16x9_NoBorder.png.webp?itok=qg3l7mLt)
May 27, 2020 On May 27, 2020, NOAA’s GOES-West satellite used its water vapor imagery to spy this donut-shaped low-pressure…
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![Supercell Storms Produce Spate of Tornadoes](/s3/migrated/gifalagastorms.gif)
The timelapse seen above in our Image of the Day captures the supercell thunderstorms that swept over parts of the landscape…
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![Heavy Snow in the Andes has GOES-East Seeing Red this Winter](https://nesdis-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/styles/webp_large/s3/2023-05/NOAA-logo_16x9_NoBorder.png.webp?itok=qg3l7mLt)
August 05, 2020 On July 29, 2020, NOAA’s GOES-East satellite viewed the snow-capped Andes mountains along the Chile-…
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![Rain Saturates The South](https://nesdis-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/styles/webp_large/s3/2023-05/NOAA-logo_16x9_NoBorder.png.webp?itok=qg3l7mLt)
February 19, 2020 On Feb. 19, 2020, the GOES-East satellite viewed an ongoing storm system in the South, where an…
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![COSMIC-2 Brings Data Boost to NOAA](/s3/migrated/PHOTO-cosmic-060519-1120x534-landscape_2.jpg)
A fleet of six small satellites, designed to improve weather prediction and space weather monitoring, are now officially…
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![GOES-East Views Agricultural Fires in Yucatán Peninsula](https://nesdis-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/styles/webp_large/s3/2023-05/NOAA-logo_16x9_NoBorder.png.webp?itok=qg3l7mLt)
March 24, 2020 On March 24, 2020, the GOES-East satellite viewed the Yucatán Peninsula as prescribed fires peppered its…