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In case you want beautiful satellite imagery in more than just your Twitter feed, we have you covered. YouTube: TikTok: IG: FB: Threads:
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The smoke drifting through the skies over the Plains comes from wildfires in the western US.
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Wildfire smoke streams over the Plains ahead of an advancing frontal boundary, where severe thunderstorms are initiating.
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A high resolution view of a tropical disturbance moving over northern Florida this afternoon. The system's low-level circulation swirls and its convection bubbles as it moves inland.
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Waves dance in the clouds off the northern coast of California.
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Thunderstorms drenched the Mid-Atlantic states in heavy rainfall yesterday, inundating many areas with flash flooding.
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A 24-hour time lapse of Invest 93L swirling off the Florida coast. @NHC_Atlantic gives the system a 40% chance of developing over the next few days.
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Moonlight illuminates a combination of smoke and clouds that move across southern Colorado and northern New Mexico. Seen earlier this morning by polar-orbiting satellites.
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Raging wildfires in Arizona, Utah, and Colorado billow large smoke plumes into the skies over the Four Corners states.
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In late May, Iceberg A23a dislodged from the seafloor near South Georgia Island and spent the month of June heading eastward.
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Polar-orbiting satellites captured the White Sage and Dragon Bravo fires as they burned north of the Grand Canyon in Arizona.
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Over the weekend, the Dragon Bravo Fire destroyed numerous structures along the North Rim of the Grand Canyon. This three-day satellite animation shows the evolution of this fire and one other, burning in northern Arizona.
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Last night, the full moon shined a spotlight on Canadian wildfire smoke filling the skies over Quebec.
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Wildfires produce large swaths of smoke that fill the skies above Canada. Pyrocumulus clouds were seen erupting from the burning fires in western Ontario yesterday.
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Last night, several wildfires were seen burning across eastern Utah and western Colorado. The fires produced large smoke plumes that blanketed Rocky Mountain skies.
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Nighttime visible imagery captures wildfires burning in Ontario and Manitoba, while lightning flashes within thunderstorms over the northern Central Plains.
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After a day of heavy downpours and catastrophic flash flooding in the Texas Hill Country, storms persisted into the next day. JPSS satellites captured another round of thunderstorms initiating near Austin, Texas during the early morning hours of 5 July 2025. (4/4)
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Morning sunlight shines upon the flash-flood producing storms over Central Texas on 4 July 2025. In the Day Cloud Phase Distinction product, the main convective storm system is highlighted red-orange, while nearby lower-level clouds appear blue and green. (3/4)
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The abundance of water vapor in the atmosphere contributed to the immense rain that fell in the Hill Country during the early morning hours of 4 July 2025, with some locations receiving up to 12 inches (30 cm) of rain in just a few hours. (2/4)
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Over the Fourth of July weekend, heavy rain triggered flash flooding in the Texas Hill Country. The remnants of Tropical Storm Barry, which had made landfall in Mexico earlier in the week, helped prime the atmosphere beforehand with a high moisture content. (1/4)
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The Gothic Fire in southern Nevada grows to 7,600 acres as it spews smoke into the sky.
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