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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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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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30-second imagery of rapidly intensifying Hurricane Polo — which eventually reached Category 5 intensity

30-second GOES-18 Infrared Window images with plots of GLM Flash Points, from 2001 UTC on 21 September to 0438 UTC on 22 September In terms of central pressure — with a minimum of 892 hPa (SATCON) — ...
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Late September Nor’easter

5-minute GOES-19 Mid-level Water Vapor images with overlays of surface wind barbs, peak wind gusts and surface pressure contours/fronts — from 1041 UTC on 25 September to 0001 UTC on 28 September ...
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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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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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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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Eruption of Anak Krakatau in Indonesia

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