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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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30-second GOES-19 Infrared imagery of severe thunderstorms in Mississippi and Alabama

30-second GOES-19 Infrared images with time-matched (+/- 3 minutes) plots oi SPC Storm Reports, from 2131 UTC on 06 May to 0212 UTC on 07 May [click to play animated GIF] ...
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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, ...
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Palisades Fire in Southern California

1-minute GOES-18 True Color RGB images from the CSPP GeoSphere site (below) showed the offshore transport of smoke from the Palisades Fire — and a few pyrocumulus jumps in the vicinity the wildfire ...
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Typhoon In-fa

A longer animation spanning the entire 19-20 September period (below; also available as a large 120 Mbyte animated gif) revealed an improving trend in the overall satellite presentation of In-fa, with ...