Last night, JPSS satellites captured this awesome instance of the bright exhaust plume of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launching from Cape Canaveral in Florida.

A lifetime animation of Typhoon Sinlaku in the Western Pacific Ocean, from its beginning to post-tropical transition.

Sinlaku knocked out most of the power to the islands when it made landfall, and several nights later the power could still be seen recovering in the Day-Night Band.

This image of Typhoon Sinlaku making landfall on Saipan and Tinian contains the infrared (band 13) product from the Himwari-9 weather satellite at 14:20 UTC on 2026-04-14.

Just before midnight local time on April 14th, Typhoon Sinlaku made landfall on the islands of Saipan and Tinian, part of the U.S. territory Northern Mariana Islands, just north of Guam.

This image of airglow gravity waves at night from Typhoon Sinlaku contains the Day-Night Band (NCC) product from the NOAA-21 weather satellite at 15:51 UTC on 2026-04-12.

As strong storms like Typhoon Sinlaku experience rapid strengthening, its effects can be seen from airglow gravity waves emanating from the center of the storm. The Day-Night Band from the JPSS weather satellites detected this phenomenon at night occurring from Sinlaku.

This image of sunrise on Super Typhoon Sinlaku contains the GeoColor product from the Himwari-9 weather satellite at 20:50 UTC on 2026-04-13.

The strongest storm so far in 2026 was Typhoon Sinlaku, forming in the Western Pacific on April 9th. After a period of rapid intensification, Sinlaku became a super typhoon on April 13th, achieving winds of 180 mph (290 km/h). Himawari-9 imagery shows sunrise on the mighty storm.

This image of Tropical Cyclone Vaianu north of New Zealand contains the day land cloud product from the NOAA-21 weather satellite at 02:20 UTC on 2026-04-09.

Vaianu continued to move south in the direction of New Zealand. NOAA-21 captured a sense of scale of the storm's size in relation to the island nation as Vaianu was undergoing extratropical transition. Vaianu eventually made landfall on the North Island on April 12th.

This image of Tropical Cyclone Vaianu near Fiji contains the visible (band 2) and group energy density (GLM) products from the GOES-18 weather satellite at 19:00 UTC on 2026-04-06.

Tropical Cyclone Vaianu reached its peak intensity on April 7th as it made its closest approach to the island nation of Fiji. GOES-18 observed Vaianu with the Geostationary Lightning Mapper (GLM) instrument to detect lightning from storms in Vaianu’s outer bands.

This image of the sea surface temperatures of the Solomon Sea contains the GeoSST product from the Himawari-9 weather satellite at 23:50 UTC on 2026-03-30.

Maila was able to achieve strength comparable to a Category 4 hurricane due to very warm sea surface temperatures in the Solomon Sea prior to its formation.

This image of Tropical Cyclone Maila contains the visible (band I1) and infrared (band I5) products from the Suomi-NPP weather satellite at 03:32 UTC on 2026-04-07.

April 2026 has seen several notable tropical cyclones, one such being Tropical Cyclone Maila in the Solomon Sea. Convection bursts around the eye of the storm signified its intensification on April 7th, reaching maximum sustained winds of 145 mph (230 km/h).

Nearly all the remaining snow and lake ice in northern Lower Michigan has melted in the last couple of weeks.

The large amounts of snowmelt, along with recent heavy rainfall and storms, has contributed to the excessive widespread flooding in the region.

Over the course of a week, ice shifts in the Beaufort Sea north of the Northern Territories.

Details: This satellite imagery contains the visible (band I-1) and infrared (band I-5) products from the NOAA-20 weather satellite. It was captured at 19:20 UTC on 2026-04-17.

NOAA-20 captured high-resolution satellite imagery of the long line of thunderstorms firing up across multiple states earlier today.

Severe and tornadic thunderstorms are breaking out across the Central US this afternoon, forming a long line of storms from the Great Lakes to the Southern Plains.

Correction: The time label should say Visible (Band 2) instead of GeoColor.

Severe thunderstorms erupt across Iowa and Minnesota.

There is an enhanced risk for all types of severe weather across a large portion of the Central US.

A weakening Typhoon Sinlaku crosses the Northern Mariana Islands again and returns to the Pacific Ocean.

This past weekend Typhoon Sinlaku underwent rapid intensification into a super typhoon, and has spent the last few days lashing Guam and the Mariana Islands in this multi-day satellite imagery.

A spinning low over northeastern Libya kicks up dust.

An upper-level trough digs across the western US.

This system will usher in the return of some winter weather to parts of the Mountain West, as well as a considerable severe weather threat for the Plains and Midwest tomorrow.

Large hail falls from severe thunderstorms erupting across the Great Plains this afternoon.

Typhoon Sinlaku churns near the Mariana Islands.

From the Southern Plains to the Midwest, severe storms and tornadic supercells erupt across the U.S. this afternoon and evening.

Details: This imagery contains the Day-Night Band from the NOAA-20 weather satellite. It was captured at 16:03 UTC on 2026-04-14.

The eye of Typhoon Sinlaku lashes Saipan and Tinian as it passed over the islands during the night, observed in this satellite imagery from NOAA-20.

Yesterday, interesting clouds rippled westward over Lake Michigan.

Super Typhoon Sinlaku | CIRA Satellite Library

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Typhoon Sinlaku reaches the Mariana Islands bringing destructive winds and heavy rain.

Severe thunderstorms rumble in the Upper Midwest this evening.

A spectacular view of sunrise on the powerhouse of a storm that is Super Typhoon Sinlaku as it is only hours away from reaching the Mariana Islands.

Breathtaking views of Super Typhoon Sinlaku seen yesterday and today from the JPSS weather satellites, capturing the very impressive eye at the center of the storm.