A few fires across Florida and Georgia as contrails and clouds flow overhead.
GOES-19's view from yesterday.
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The remarkable life of Super Typhoon Sinlaku.
News: a leading NSF supported University of Oklahoma atmospheric science summer undergraduate research program that has mentored hundreds of top atmospheric scientists over two decades has been canceled for 2026 due to funding loss. (repost w/correct link) More: tinyurl.com/3zjzf7vu
Two massive forked lightning bolts drop behind the Chicago skyline during a nighttime thunderstorm
Single frame. Two perfectly placed bolts. Thanks, Mother Nature!
#ILwx #Chicago
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Incredible satellite imagery of the tornado outbreak underway across the central United States.
Storms erupt in Minnesota and Iowa.
we live at the bottom of an ocean
Got bored tonight, so I downloaded 3 hours worth of Earthcam replay / archive footage from their Skydeck camera atop of the Willis Tower (Sears Tower) in Chicago and made a time lapse of the fog rolling in off Lake Michigan. Good illustration of how our atmosphere behaves like any other fluid. #ilwx
Here is a truly awesome opportunity to join the CNN Weather team!
An editor to guide very visual and digital weather content.
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Severe and tornadic storms erupt across Iowa and Wisconsin.
Super Typhoon Sinlaku over the last 2.5 days.
What an incredible storm.
A fascinating view of the long-track supercell that dropped huge hail in southern Minnesota today.
The remarkable evolution of Super Typhoon Sinlaku.
Super Typhoon Sinlaku.
Sheesh.
The fierce eye of Typhoon Sinlaku.
the lightning mapper picked up instances of light that it produced on reentry. so this product shows it as a lightning flash
Weather satellites were able to see the Artemis II launch and re-entry.
Space is cool, satellites are cool. It's all cool!!!
The life and death of twin cyclones in the West Pacific.
A fascinating evolution and interaction.
An active morning already for Hawaii and a TON of lightning in the storm that hit the Big Island earlier.
Hawaii faces another Kona storm while some areas are still recovering from the last two:
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oh man...
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#Artemis II - We have the first image from yesterdays Lunar flyby captured by the crew on Orion
EARTHSET.
April 6, 2026.
Humanity, from the other side. First photo from the far side of the Moon. Captured from Orion as Earth dips beyond the lunar horizon.
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A gorgeous low swirls in the Eastern Pacific.
Things that spin are pretty.
A satellite view that tracks the rocket a bit longer - the water vapor imagery.
Pew pew! All imagery found via CIRA/NOAA: slider.cira.colostate.edu.
Welp this is one of the coolest things I've ever seen.
Absolutely breathtaking view of the Artemis II launch.
Wow.
The Canary Islands enveloped in dust as waves and vortices swirl off of them.
A fascinating, complex view.