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An extreme geomagnetic storm as a result of multiple coronal mass ejections from the Sun impacted Earth at the end of last week, creating stunning auroras that were visible in locations across the world where the northern lights are rarely seen.
A fascinating ocean current loop can be seen as warm waters from the Caribbean Sea flow into the Gulf Stream.
Over the last couple of months, the Gulf of Mexico has seen warming sea surface temperatures as summer draws near.
A 24 hour time lapse showing Noru rapidly intensify from a tropical storm to a super typhoon.
Super Typhoon Noru is headed towards the Philippines in the Western Pacific.
Over the course of a 12-hour time-span, Hurricane Lee rapidly-intensified from a category 1 to a category 4 storm.
This sunrise-to-sunset imagery shows Lee's evolution today and the development of its impressive eye. It is expected to become a category 5 in the next day.
Yesterday through earlier today, six tropical cyclones were spinning across different parts of the world in 3 separate oceans.
All animations shown here occur during the same period of time.
We are excited to share first looks at GOES-18 imagery!
A wonderful full view of Earth.
Though beautiful, GOES-18 data is preliminary and non-operational.
A powerful storm system brought feet of snow in the West while triggering tornadoes across the Plains and Midwest.
This remarkable satellite view shows the system racing across the country.
This morning we have incredibly high resolution imagery of Hurricane Idalia.
This 30-second imagery shows impressive convection within Idalia as the sunrises.
"Good, everyone has arrived. Lets get this meeting of Atlantic tropical systems started."
Idalia, Franklin, Jose, and Gert are all hanging out nearby each other in the Atlantic Ocean.
A wildfire in southern British Columbia produced a brief pyrocumulonimbus cloud this evening.
This high resolution satellite imagery from GOES-18 shows the explosiveness within the smoke plume.
The Smokehouse Creek fire and others merged into the second largest fire in Texas's history over the course of the last two days.
The fires are highlighted in white, while clouds are dark grey or blue.
As the fast-moving cold front encounters the wildfires scorching Texas and Oklahoma, the fires are oriented from east to south following the new wind direction.