Severe thunderstorms fired up across the Southern Plains yesterday afternoon and evening.
Lightning strikes from these storms sparked numerous wildfires across the region, with some burning thousands of acres.
Details: This animation contains the GeoColor, Fire Temperature, and Group Energy Density products from the GOES-19 weather satellite. It spans the eight-and-a-half hour period from 19:00 UTC on 2026-05-14 to 03:29 UTC on 2026-05-15.
A swirly upper-level low kicks up a dust storm across the U.S. Northern Plains and south-central Canada.
Details: This animation contains the True Color and CVD Dust products from the JPSS weather satellites. It spans the two-hour period from 18:40 to 20:21 UTC on 2026-05-14.
Beautiful von Kármán vortices form downwind of Cabo Verde as Saharan Dust drifts overhead.
Details: This animation contains the GeoColor product from the Meteosat-12 weather satellite. It spans the 11-hour period from 08:00 UTC to 19:20 UTC on 2026-05-14.
Several small swirls spin within a large low pressure system that has been hanging over the South Pacific Ocean this week.
Details: This animation contains the GeoProxy product from the GOES-18 weather satellite. It spans the four-day period from 16:00 UTC on 2026-05-10 to 18:30 UTC on 2026-05-14.
Strong winds cause blowing dust in Montana and North Dakota.
Details: This animation contains the GeoColor product from the GOES-19 weather satellite. It spans the four-and-a-half-hour period from 13:00 UTC to 17:21 UTC on 2026-05-14.
From the Intermountain West to the Mid-Atlantic, both operational GOES satellites keep a keen eye on severe thunderstorms firing up across the U.S.
Details: This animation contains the GeoColor and GLM Group Energy Density products from the GOES-West and GOES-East weather satellites. It spans the two-hour period from 18:30 to 20:39 UTC on 2026-05-13.
A low swirls over the Barents Sea north of Norway.
Details: This animation contains the visible (band I1) product from the NOAA-20, NOAA-21, and S-NPP weather satellites. It spans the 12-hour period from 00:57 UTC to 12:47 UTC on 2026-05-13.
The Toshka Lakes, endorheic bodies of water in southern Egypt filled by overflow from nearby Lake Nasser, reached their lowest levels in the 2010's. Heavy rainfall and flooding upstream saw the revival of the lakes in the 2020's.
This satellite imagery from JPSS observes the shrinking and growth of the lakes over the last fourteen years.
Details: This animation contains the day land cloud product from the JPSS weather satellites. It spans the fourteen-year period from 11:05 UTC on 2012-04-08 to 11:14 UTC on 2026-04-08.
A low pressure system moving across the Upper Midwest today kicks up swaths of blowing dust in its wake.
Details: This animation contains the GeoColor and CVD Dust products from the GOES-19 weather satellite. It spans the eleven-hour period from 11:46 to 22:46 UTC on 2026-05-12.
Clouds stream west off the islands of the Lesser Antilles in the Caribbean.
Details: This animation contains the day land cloud product from the GOES-19 weather satellite. It spans the 10-hour period from 10:30 UTC to 20:30 UTC on 2026-05-12.
