Uploaded March 2023 | Updated September 2026, 20 hours ago
Spring is on the horizon. With the promise of warmer temperatures and blooming flowers also comes an increased risk of severe weather. NOAA’s geostationary (GOES East and GOES West) and polar-orbiting (Suomi NPP and NOAA-20) satellites monitor the changing weather patterns that come with the transition from winter to spring.
As the potential for severe thunderstorms, hail, tornadoes, dangerous lightning, and flooding increases, NOAA satellites work together to provide critical data for weather forecasts and severe weather warnings. They also aid emergency responders to help keep our communities safe.
March 6–10, 2023, is Severe Weather Preparedness Week.
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Read more:
nesdis.noaa.gov/news/noaa-satellites-help-us-prepare-severe-weather
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Credits:
NOAA
NASA
CIRA
Flood map imagery courtesy of SSEC.
Music:
“Supermoon” by Leo Tate [PRS]; Freshworx Music Limited; Universal Production Music
Spring is on the horizon. With the promise of warmer temperatures and blooming flowers also comes an increased risk of severe weather. NOAA’s geostationary (GOES East and GOES West) and polar-orbiting (Suomi NPP and NOAA-20) satellites monitor the changing weather patterns that come with the transition from winter to spring.
As the potential for severe thunderstorms, hail, tornadoes, dangerous lightning, and flooding increases, NOAA satellites work together to provide critical data for weather forecasts and severe weather warnings. They also aid emergency responders to help keep our communities safe.
March 6–10, 2023, is Severe Weather Preparedness Week.
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Read more:
nesdis.noaa.gov/news/noaa-satellites-help-us-prepare-severe-weather
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Credits:
NOAA
NASA
CIRA
Flood map imagery courtesy of SSEC.
Music:
“Supermoon” by Leo Tate [PRS]; Freshworx Music Limited; Universal Production Music
