Satellite imagery is a cornerstone of weather monitoring. But the imagery is not always what it seems. Learn how these maps ...

Public interest in natural disasters tends to focus on big, discrete weather events like hurricanes ... of the landmass of the continental United States. The flooding started in earnest in ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — While hot weather is in the forecast ... Additionally, the reductions aim to rescope NOAA’s satellite program and eliminate “unnecessary layers of bureaucracy” while ...

You have full access to this article via your institution. The most scientifically capable weather satellite the United States has ever launched is slated to soar into orbit on 19 November.

I remember in college in the late 2000s learning about forecasting weather. My classmates and I would hand draw maps with the current weather systems and then we'd look at the satellite data to ...

A United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket boosted the third of four advanced GOES weather satellites into orbit Tuesday to monitor conditions across the Pacific Ocean, Alaska, Hawaii and the western ...

The United States is aiming to launch ... precipitation from space. “This satellite constellation partnership with Tomorrow.io will fill critical weather sensing gaps and give Air Force Weather ...

The final satellite in ... of NOAA’s Space Weather Prediction Center, said in the statement. "With dramatically improved resolution and faster detection, it helps us better predict dangerous ...

“The GOES-R series of satellites has been a game changer for us,” said Ken Graham, director of NOAA’s National Weather ... predict the motion of the fires. The satellite can also use its ...

Below, images from the Himawari-8 weather satellite's first official day paint a living portrait of the western Pacific, with Typhoons Chan-hom and Nangka spinning slowly westward. Solar panels ...