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![British Columbia Experiences Snowfall](/s3/migrated/2020-01-16.png)
On Jan. 15, NOAA-20 viewed a low pressure system that has been bringing snowfall into British Columbia, Canada since Jan. 10…
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![Unusual Early-Season Snowfall in the South](/s3/2021-06/2163v1_20171210-ECsnow.jpeg)
December 11, 2017 NOAA/NASA's Suomi NPP satellite captured this image of an unusual early-season snow that fell across…
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![Record December Snowfall in the Mid-Atlantic](/s3/migrated/20181211-NCVAsnow.jpg)
GOES East captured heavy snow cover over the Mid-Atlantic region on Dec. 11, 2018.
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![Winter Storm Leads to Historic Snowfall in Spain](/s3/migrated/spainiod2.png)
On Jan. 11, 2021, Europe’s Meteosat-11 satellite captured imagery of the aftermath of…
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![A return to below-normal snowfall in the Sierra Nevada in 2018](/s3/migrated/20180208-sierranevada.png)
February 08, 2018 This image, captured by the Suomi NPP satellite's VIIRS instrument compares current snow cover in the…
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![Earth from Orbit: Late-Season Snowstorm Breaks Records](/s3/2021-07/snowstorm169.png)
Satellite imagery shows a late-season snowstorm that dropped record-breaking amounts of snowfall in Cheyenne, Wyoming and…
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![Snow Cover](/s3/migrated/Snow.png)
Predicting snowfall amounts is part of NOAA’s mission, and so is measuring the amount of snow already on the ground. Snow…
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![Activity: Measure Snow](/s3/2022-04/measure-snow-thumb.jpg)
Earth-observing satellites like the Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS) help scientists measure snowfall in remote areas…
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![JPSS Simple Paper Model](/s3/2022-02/jpss-model-1.png)
Hurricanes, tornadoes, heat waves, and severe snowfalls happen more often than ever. We rely on spacecraft orbiting Earth to…
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![Ten Years Later, Snowmageddon Records Still Stand](/s3/2021-06/Snowmageddon.png)
Tuesday, February 4, 2020Photo courtesy of the Sterling, Va., NWS Forecast OfficeTen years ago this week, the Eastern U.S.…
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![Early-Season Snowstorm Moves Into the Midwest](/s3/migrated/20191030-midweststorm.jpg)
GOES West is watching an early-season snowstorm that is moving into the Plains and Midwest from the Rocky Mountains, which…
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![Then and Now—The Blizzard of 2009 vs. a Chilly 2019](/s3/migrated/iod121819goes12and16_0.jpg)
On the eastern coast of North America on Dec. 18, 2019, the GOES-16 satellite showed a long cold front that stretched from…
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![Fourth March Nor'easter Departs the East Coast](/s3/migrated/20180322-noreaster.png)
he Suomi NPP satellite's VIIRS instrument captured this week's nor'easter moving away from the U.S. East…
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![Early Season Winter Storm Hammers the Eastern U.S.](/s3/migrated/20181116_EastCoastFirstSnow.png)
NOAA's GOES East satellite captured this geocolor enhanced image of an early season winter storm moving through the…
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![GOES East Tracks the Season’s First Nor’Easter](/s3/migrated/20201217_noreaster-mp4.gif)
This nor-easter started to develop Wednesday morning, Dec. 16, where snow, ice, and rain stretched from the Southeast up…