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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Brazil is known for lush expanses of rainforests and other vegetated areas, however, closer…
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Primarily a salt flat in Australia, Lake Eyre floods occasionally during heavy periods of rainfall…
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Tropical cyclones have a wide range of wind speeds that are used to classify their intensities.…
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The incredibly accurate 5-day forecasts for Hurricanes Irene and Sandy have illustrated the…
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Five days before Sandy made landfall along the New Jersey coastline, NOAA's National Hurricane…
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This image from the NASA/NOAA Suomi NPP satellite's VIIRS instrument shows Hurricane Sandy…
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As the NOAA GOES-13 satellite provides on-going operational coverage of Hurricane Sandy, a special…
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Hurricane Sandy October 2012 follows up the US east coast and devastates New York and New Jersey.