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Powerful “Derecho” Storms as Seen from Space

July 5, 2012

Want to stay on top of all the space news? Follow @universetoday on Twitter The powerful windstorms that swept across the US last week was captured by several different satellites. This type of storm, called a derecho, moved from Illinois to the Mid-Atlantic states on June 29, and the movie from NOAA’s GOES-13 satellite shows [...]

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Titan’s Giant Cloud Explained

August 17, 2011

Titan is making news again, this time with Cassini images from 2010 showing a storm nearly as big as Texas.  Jonathan Mitchell from UCLA and his research team have published their findings which help answer the question: What could cause such large storms to develop on a freezing cold world? For starters, the huge arrow [...]

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Videos: Two Different Satellite Views of the Big Snowstorm of 2011

February 3, 2011

To speak in the vernacular of the peasantry, this storm was a whopper. Heavy snow, ice, freezing rain, and frigid wind battered about two thirds of the United States, making it “a winter storm of historic proportions,” said the National Weather Service. This animation—made with images from the NOAA-NASA GOES 13 satellite—shows the giant storm [...]

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Satellite View: Huge Storm Heads Across the US

January 31, 2011

The roads are a skating rink where I live! This visible image was captured by the GOES-13 satellite on January 31, 2011 and it shows the low pressure area bringing snowfall to the Midwest US. Heavy snow is expected today in portions of northern Iowa, southern Minnesota and Wisconsin. Snowfall from the system extends from [...]

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Most Intense Storm in History Cuts Across the US — As Seen from Space

October 27, 2010

Yowza! – Here’s a satellite image of a storm of record-breaking proportions. On October 26, 2010, the strongest storm ever recorded in the Midwest spawned 24 tornadoes, 282 reports of damaging winds, violent thunderstorms, and torrential rains. The mega-storm reached peak intensity late yesterday afternoon over Minnesota, resulting in the lowest barometric pressure readings ever [...]

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