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Rapidly-intensifying hurricane force midlatitude cyclone passes over Iceland

EUMETSAT Meteosat-11 Water Vapor images (above) showed a warming/drying signature (shades of yellow to orange) within the ...
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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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Super Typhoon Champi passes just south of Guam

Target Sector JMA Himawari-9 Infrared Window images (above) showed Super Typhoon Champi as its pinhole eye moved just south ...
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Snow cover across parts of Montana

Day Snow-Fog RGB images (above) displayed the signature of snow cover (shades of red) across parts of Montana on. This was ...
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Hurricane Isaias reaches Category 3 intensity south of the Gulf Coast, eventually making landfall along the Florida Panhandle

Overlapping 1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sectors provided GOES-19 (GOES-East) images at 30-second intervals — Infrared Window ...
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Lake Effect from Wisconsin’s Lake Winnebago

Lake Winnebago is the largest lake located entirely within the borders of Wisconsin. At 137,000 acres, it has approximately ...
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Episode 55 of the ongoing eruption of Kilauea on the Big Island of Hawai’i

Episode 55 of the ongoing eruption of Kilauea (Episode 1 began on 23 December 2024) commenced at 1319 UTC on 17 October 2026. 5-minute PACUS Sector GOES-18 (GOES-West) SO2 RGB and Ash RGB images ...
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Brand and Visual Identity

All SSEC / CIMSS content, including project websites, apps, and other digital content must follow UW accessibility guidelines as required by Federal law by April 2027. All SSEC / CIMSS digital content ...
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Three Active Tropical Systems in the Western Pacific

Once again, we see that 2026 continues to bring a large number of tropical systems in the Pacific. This time, we turn our eyes to the western part of our planet’s largest ocean to see a trio of ...
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Pacific Hurricane Nolo Rapidly Strengthens to Near Category 5, But Soon Weakens After

2026 continues to be an intense year for hurricanes in the eastern Pacific Ocean as Nolo became the 6th system in that basin to reach category 4 or greater during this year. Its ascent to major ...
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Tropical Depression Nine forms in the Gulf of Mexico, and is forecast to intensify to become Hurricane Isaias

1-minute GOES-19 Infrared Window images with plots of GLM Flash Points, from 1601 UTC on 06 October to 0200 UTC on 07 October GOES-19 Visible images with an overlay of contours and streamlines of deep ...
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Hurricane Rachel reaches Category 3 intensity over the East Pacific

1-minute GOES-18 Infrared Window images with plot of GLM Flash Points, from 1401-2359 UTC on 01 October In the corresponding 1-minute GOES-18 Visible images (below), the eye became mostly ...