General Website Summary

This page lists many of the main sectors found on this site. Other main catagories that are not listing here are, Marine forecasts & conditions, U.S. Fire Central, world wide Earthquakes, U.S. & Europe Lightning Radar and Aviation. There is a great number of other links with more world weather information found within the main menu above.

GOES Satellite

The Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES) is one of NOAA's most useful tools for understanding our planet. Situated 35,000km above the equator in outer space, the satellite provides a constant stream of data and imagery back to Earth as it observes clouds, ocean temperatures, winds, atmospheric properties, severe storm systems, fires and many other environmental parameters.

NOAA uses two GOES satellites to provide coverage of the Western Hemisphere, including the U.S. territories in the Pacific. This visualization uses a variety of datasets from GOES to demonstrate the versatility and importance of these satellites.