NOAA's National Weather Service - Satellite Images

We use this free service just about everyday, and thought we'd share it with you. The tabbed interface gives you all kinds of weather data, but the main page is stunning. It shows you precipitation for the entire US.

This shows the most recent image of the United States, taken from a NOAA satellite. This image is taken in the infrared band of light and show relative warmth of objects. Colder objects are brighter and warmer objects are darker. Lower layers of clouds, generally warmer and lower in altitude, are colored gray. Colder and generally higher clouds tops are highlighted in colors. IR imagery is useful for determining cloud features both at day and night.

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Hurricanes as Seen from Space - Pictures from Orbit

There's an amazing set of pictures over at Boston.com on hurricanes. It's a set of pictures taken from orbit on various hurricanes like Hurricane Ivan from 2004. Some of the pictures of the eyes of various hurricanes are jaw dropping.

This image of Hurricane Ivan, one of the strongest hurricanes on record, was taken Saturday, Sept 11th, 2004 from an altitude of about 230 miles by Astronaut Edward M. Fincke, NASA ISS science officer and flight engineer, looking out the window of the International Space Station. At the time, Ivan was in the western Caribbean Sea and reported to have winds of 160 mph. (NASA)

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Inspirational Weather - Sun Rays

Sun Rays, Part 1

Maybe sun rays aren't weather per se, but they are often the result of a mixture of weather patterns. We really enjoy a good sunset driven set of sun rays mixed with thick clouds as seen in this picture. We hope given the insane amount of bad weather, flooding, and other conditions across the US - this picture can be a little break from all the madness.

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Weather Photo Friday: Cyclone Larry as seen via Earthbrowser

Cyclone Larry as seen via Earthbrowser

We didn't know you could name a Cycloe Larry but you can! Cyclone Larry was upgraded to a category 5 storm as it hit the North Queenland coast, making it the most powerful cyclone to hit Australia in 30 years.

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Weather Photo Friday - Stormy Beach

Stormy Weather!

The stormy weather of spring is upon us and apparently in Kuwait as well. This photo taken back in 2006 is a gem. The colors are amazing.

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Bad Weather = Barn Collapse

My Parent's Barn in Northern Maine

This is a very personal post, as my parents barn that holds the tractor, their cars, and lots of stuff they need to make it through the winter. The funny thing is the roof had very little snow on it, and the barn is only about 20 years old. I hope they do find out what caused it, but I bet it was something that after 20+ years of pounding northern Maine winters just let go.

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Weather Photo Friday - Icelandic Snowstorm

Icelandic snowstorm

Check out this white out from Iceland

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Weather Photo Friday: Gnomes in a Winter Storm

Okay - it's Weather Photo Friday and you have to give a gnome their due from time to time - or they come in the middle of the night and mess up your yard.

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Weather Photo Friday: Sea Wall Storms

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We simply love this picture of a storm making waves large enough to blast a sea wall.

From the photographer, "It looks like a scary ghost coming over the walls ready to make us all lose our marbles. Those of us that haven't."

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Weather Photo Friday: Big Clouds

clouds are buildin'

They're big and building...:-)

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Weather Photo Friday: Stormy October Nights

LIGHTNING

Add a little bit of storm and a cemetery and you have some amazing October nights.

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Weather Photo Friday: A Day of Rain in Mississipi

Rain from Humberto

Humberto's touch on the Mississippi River in the very early morning. Looks like this hurricane snuck up on the Gulf Coast, but things are looking up.

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Current Weather Photos from the Underground

We love the Weather Underground. If you want to check out the latest weather photos all week you can view them in the gallery of current weather pictures. We really like this photo of a storm cloud this week, can can't wait to see some rolling big clouds ourselves soon.

At Weather Undergound

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Weather Photo Friday - Approaching Storm

Approaching storms can look quite menacing, and this photo from storm clouds near Morris, IL shows just how menacing they can be and at the same time beautiful. We've never been to Morris, IL, but we have been to other parts of Illinois that are flat and show what we call BIG SKY. Perhaps on a visit to the midwest one day we'll see such an amazing storm approaching.

At Approaching Storm

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