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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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![Powerful Hurricane Ida Approaches Louisiana](/s3/2021-09/Hurricane-Ida-Lightening-Thumbnail.png)
NOAA’s GOES East satellite was closely watching the swirling clouds and flashing lightning associated with major Hurricane…
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![Historical Events](https://nesdis-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/styles/webp_large/s3/2023-05/NOAA-logo_16x9_NoBorder.png.webp?itok=qg3l7mLt)
NOAA’s satellites monitor the Earth’s environment in real-time every day, capturing storms, floods, fires, lightning, and…
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![Satellite Snapshot: Severe Storms Slam Houston](/s3/2024-05/202405162200-202405170045_g16_meso_band2glm_houston-slammed-by-severe-storms_labels-1-ezgif.com-video-to-gif-converter.gif)
NOAA’s GOES East captured Texas storms from above in this visible imagery, which also shows frequent lighting observed with…
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![GOES-S Pack and Ship Media B-Roll](/s3/2021-07/GOES-S_Pack_Ship_Broll_12_4_17.jpg)
GOES-S Pack and Ship Media B-Roll. The GOES-R Series provides advanced imagery and atmospheric measurements, real-time…
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![NOAA GOES-U Art Challenge Finalists Announced](/s3/2022-02/art-content_banner.en__2.jpg)
In May 2024, NOAA SciJinks and NASA Space Place released its monthly art challenge! They called on young explorers to draw…
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![NOAA Satellites Help Us Prepare for Severe Weather](/s3/2023-03/2023_03_09_Preparing_for_Severe_Weather_STILL.png)
Spring is on the horizon. With the promise of warmer temperatures and blooming flowers also comes an increased risk of…
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![NOAA-20 Captures Nighttime Imagery of Storms in the South](/s3/migrated/NOAA-20_20180329_0728_lightning_enhanced_insert.png)
The NOAA-20 polar-orbiting satellite captured this moonlit nighttime imagery of severe thunderstorms moving over the…
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![Earth from Orbit: Severe Storms Strike Southern U.S.](/s3/2021-07/storms169.png)
A severe weather outbreak swept across the Southern U.S. and produced damaging winds, hail, and tornadoes including EF2s in…
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![Severe Weather](https://nesdis-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/styles/webp_large/s3/2023-05/NOAA-logo_16x9_NoBorder.png.webp?itok=qg3l7mLt)
Severe weather is classified as a series of events that can cause destructive or deadly effects on the ground. It…
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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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![40 Years of GOES: The Anniversary of GOES-1](/s3/migrated/early_goes_satellite.jpg)
40 years ago today, on October 16, 1975, NOAA’s first Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite was launched.
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![GOES-R Preview for Broadcast Meteorologists](/s3/migrated/meteorologists.jpg)
From June 10-12, 2015, broadcast meteorologists gathered for the American Meteorological Society’s 43rd Conference on…
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![GeoXO Spacecraft & Instruments](https://nesdis-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/styles/webp_large/s3/2023-05/NOAA-logo_16x9_NoBorder.png.webp?itok=qg3l7mLt)
NOAA evaluated a range of space architecture options for delivering the recommended GeoXO observations effectively and…
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![Earth Sheds Its Winter Coat](/s3/migrated/springheader.jpg)
With the change of seasons, there comes increased risk of severe weather.