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Rapidly intensifying midlatitude cyclone passes over Iceland

EUMETSAT Meteosat-11 Water Vapor images (above) showed a warming/drying signature (shades of yellow to orange) within the ...
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Snow cover across parts of Montana

Day Snow-Fog RGB images (above) displayed the signature of snow cover (shades of red) across parts of Montana on. This was ...
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Post-tropical Cyclone Rachel Makes Landfall in Baja California, Impacts Southeast US

While many of the nation’s meteorological eyes have been along the Gulf Coast as Isaias made just the first Atlantic ...
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Hurricane Isaias reaches Category 3 intensity, as it moves closer to the US Gulf Coast

Overlapping 1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sectors provided GOES-19 (GOES-East) images at 30-second intervals — Infrared Window ...
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Tropical Depression Nine forms in the Gulf of Mexico, and is forecast to intensify to Tropical Storm (or possibly Hurricane) Isaias

Infrared Window images (above) showed Tropical Depression Nine as it gradually developed a closed center of circulation in the southwestern Gulf of Mexico by 2100 UTC on 0. Plots of GLM Flash Points ...
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Crossing the International Date Line, Hurricane Nolo becomes Typhoon Nolo

Infrared Window images (above) showed Hurricane Nolo as it was intensifting from a Category 1 to a Category 2 storm while ...
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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 passing of the seasons has always been marked by humans, sometimes because of ...
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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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After Becoming a Snowstorm, Lala Reinvigorates Itself to Become Category 4 Hurricane

Earlier this week we introduced you to Lala, a Pacific tropical cyclone. In our first post, Lala was a tropical storm that was setting its sights on Hawaii. Some interesting things have happened since ...
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Wind-driven Old Trails Fire burns through parts of the Spokane area, forcing numerous evacuations

1-minute GOES-18 Visible images with an overlay of the Fire Mask derived product, from 1901 UTC on 01 August to 0300 UTC on 02 August; METAR surface reports are plotted in cyan, Interstate 90 is ...
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Saharan Dust Plume Streams Over the Atlantic

While the Pacific has kept seeing its share of intense tropical systems, the Atlantic has been quieter. This is consistent with what we expect with a strong El Niño, as the global scale impacts from ...
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Hurricane Genevieve rapidly intensifies to a Category 5 storm in the East Pacific

1-minute GOES-19 Visible images with plots of GLM Flash Points, from 1701 UTC on 26 July to 0000 UTC on 27 July The corresponding 1-minute GOES-19 Infrared Window images (below) displayed cloud-top ...