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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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![From Sea to Shining Sea: How JPSS Data Support Ocean Ecosystem Health](/s3/2021-10/news-images-62-a.jpg)
Covering 70 percent of the earth surface, the ocean plays a critical role in shaping our weather patterns and climate, as…
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![Satellite Snapshots](https://nesdis-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/styles/webp_large/s3/2023-05/NOAA-logo_16x9_NoBorder.png.webp?itok=qg3l7mLt)
Our dynamic planet changes constantly. This compendium of recent featured views showcases the most significant weather and…
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![The Snowy Pacific Northwest](/s3/2021-07/20190207.PacificNW.png)
This spectacular image, seen by the NOAA-20 satellite on Feb. 6, 2019, reveals a wintry landscape in much of the Pacific…
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![The Snowy Sierra Nevada](/s3/2021-07/Sierra_Nevada_snow_2018vs2019.gif)
Two views of the Sierra Nevada mountains, taken approximately one year apart in 2018 and 2019 by NOAA-20, shows much more…
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![Great Lakes Ice Reaches Historic Low](/s3/2024-03/2024_03_01_GreatLakesIceCoverage_STILL_NO_TEXT.png)
For the second consecutive year, ice cover on the Great Lakes remains significantly below average for this time of year,…
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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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![Ice & Snow](https://nesdis-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/styles/webp_large/s3/2023-05/NOAA-logo_16x9_NoBorder.png.webp?itok=qg3l7mLt)
Snow is precipitation in the form of ice crystals. It originates in clouds when temperatures are below the freezing point (0…
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![GOES East Celebrates the Autumnal Equinox](/s3/migrated/20190923-autumnalequinox.jpg)
In 2019, the official start of fall—the Autumnal Equinox—was Monday, Sept. 23 at 3:50 a.m. EDT.
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Water vapor imagery from NOAA’s GOES East satellite viewed an atmospheric wave pattern brought on by a digging trough the…
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![Current Snow Cover in the Eastern United States](/s3/2021-06/2180v1_20180118-eastUS.jpeg)
Clear skies enabled the GOES East satellite to capture this view of current snow cover over the eastern United States on…
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![The Pineapple Express Brings Precipitation to the Western U.S.](/s3/migrated/pineappleexpress12120-1.png)
On Jan. 21, 2020, GOES West viewed a strong flow of moisture streaming across the Pacific toward the western coast of the U.…
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![Satellites Help Visualize the Polar Vortex](/s3/migrated/pvlogo-1.gif)
January 21, 2021 This swirling image of the polar vortex was made possible by data from several different polar-orbiting…
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![GOES-West Sees Cyclone and Cloud Streets Over the Gulf of Alaska](/s3/migrated/20200129-cloudstreets.jpg)
A potent extratropical cyclone, seen by GOES-West on Jan. 28, 2020, is slowly making its way eastward across the Gulf of…
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![Atmospheric River Soaks California](/s3/2021-07/20190214-2045AR_GOES17.jpg)
Satellite imagery shows an atmospheric river that drenched California with heavy rain and mountain snow this week.