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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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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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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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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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Next Generation Fire System (NGFS) - Experimental

This website contains output from the Next Generation Fire System (NGFS) under development for satellite-based fire detection at NOAA. The NGFS uses satellite observations, along with advanced spatial ...
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Data and Imagery

CIMSS scientists routinely produce data and imagery not only for their research but also as a service to other researchers and collaborators, forecasters, decision makers, and the public. SSEC’s ...
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NOAA-AWG Cloud Remote Sensing at CIMSS

This page displays near-real time NOAA/NESDIS cloud products computed from geostationary (geo) and low-earth orbit (leo) sensors using the NOAA Enterprise Algorithms run at NESDIS Operations and at ...
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CIMSS NOAA Weekly Report

UW-Madison research scientists from the Space Science and Engineering Center (SSEC)/Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies (CIMSS) participated in the 2026 EUMETSAT Meteorological ...
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Sinlaku Intensifies to Category 5, threatens the Marianas and Guam

Typhoon Sinlaku (whom we introduced to you two days earlier when it was a mere tropical storm) has undergone steady and significant intensification and has now reached Category 5 status with estimated ...
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Tremendous Dust Storm Across the Northern Plains

On the afternoon of 14 May 2026, a strong midlatitude cyclone centered over the prairie provinces of Canada forced very strong winds in the Northern Great Plains of the continental United States. This ...
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Super Typhoon Bavi rapidly intensifies to a Category 5 storm east of Guam, eventually making landfall on the island of Rota

Himawari-9 Infrared Window images with an overlay of contours and streamlines of deep-layer wind shear at 1800 UTC on 03 July 10-minute Himawari-9 Visible (left) and Infrared Window (right) images, ...