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Fall Arrives in the Upper Midwest

It’s time to grab an apple cider donut and a pumpkin spice latte if you’re in the upper Midwest, because fall has arrived in ...
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Fall Equinox 2026: There GOES Summer!

Today is the Fall Equinox in the northern hemisphere and a great opportunity to show off some full disk GOES images. The ...
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30-second imagery of rapidly intensifying Hurricane Polo — which eventually reached Category 5 intensity

Overlapping 1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sectors provided 30-second GOES-19 (GOES-West) Infrared Window images of Hurricane Polo ...
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Strong winds cause coastal flooding and road closures in Utqiagvik, Alaska

10-minute GOES-18 Water Vapor images with plots of hourly surface wind barbs and wind gusts, from 1500 UTC on 12 September to 1500 UTC on 13 September A listing of Barrow Post-Rogers Airport (PABR) ...
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Eruption of Anak Krakatau in Indonesia

Large #eruption of #Krakatau #volcano (#Indonesia) started at ~16:30 UTC on Sept 4, and is continuing as of 13:00 UTC on Sept 5. #NOAA-20 OMPS satellite data showing injection of ~0.2 Tg SO? into the ...
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Interesting (Lack of) Cloud Formation on the California Coast

The GOES-18 (GOES West) Advanced Baseline Imager showed something interesting off of California’s Cape Mendocino on the morning of Saturday, 19 September 2026. This cape is the westernmost point in ...
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Hurricane Lowell passes over the far western Hawaiian Islands

1-minute GOES-18 Infrared Window images, with an overlay of 1-minute GLM Flash Points, hourly wind barbs and 30-minute peak wind gusts, from 2200 UTC on 07 September to 1000 UTC on 08 September ...
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Eruption of Anak Krakatau in Indonesia

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Blowing dust from Lake Colhué Huapi in the Patagonian region of southern Argentina

10-minute GOES-19 daytime True Color RGB + nighttime Dust RGB images, from 2000 UTC on 16 September to 0500 UTC on 17 September During the same time period, GOES-19 daytime True Color RGB + Nighttime ...
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Floriston Fire near the California/Nevada border

5-minute GOES-18 Visible images with an overlay of the Fire Mask derived product, from 1646 UTC on 16 September to 0101 UTC on 17 September; Interstate 80 is plotted in red As the Floriston Fire smoke ...
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Tropical Storm Fay approaches hurricane intensity

10-minute GOES-19 Infrared Window images with overlays of GLM Flash Points and 6-hourly Surface Analyses, from 1030 UTC on 20 September to 0300 UTC on 21 September A 2238 UTC overpass of Metop-C ...
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September Squall Lines

The balmy airmass across much of the eastern U.S. provided the fuel for severe storms across the Great Lakes and Mid-Atlantic regions for a while now. 18Z HRRR analysis of theta-e across the CONUS.