NOAA’s satellites monitor the Earth’s environment in real-time every day, capturing storms, floods, fires, lightning, and other major events that affect us and the world around us. This gallery features our most iconic images from weather events that significantly impacted our lives.
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In 2021, Hurricane Ida became the most destructive storm of the busy Atlantic hurricane season—its…
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On Feb. 24, 2021, the GOES East satellite captured GeoColor imagery of grayish smoke plumes rising…
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The pastel imagery above is an Ash RGB product captured by Europe’s Meteosat-11 satellite on Feb.…
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GOES-East satellite captured this GeoColor and GLM lightning composite image loop of powerful…
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On Nov. 5, 2020, NOAA’s GOES-East satellite focused on a thick blanket of smoke billowing over…
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Early on November 2, 2020, the GOES-East satellite watched Tropical Storm Eta strengthen into a…
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On October 28, 2020, NOAA’s GOES-East satellite viewed Hurricane Zeta make landfall at Cocodrie,…
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On Oct. 27, 2020, the Himawari-8 satellite, operated by our partners at the Japan Meteorological…