One of the most common and important jobs for satellites is the monitoring of Earth's weather. While the first weather imaging satellite entered the planning stages in 1946, it would take 14 years ...

The TIROS III satellite detected “an area of disturbed weather a hundred miles southwest of the Cabo Verde Islands,” explains NOAA’s Atlantic Oceanographic & Meteorological Laboratory.

The satellites, suddenly struggling against a much thicker medium, begin losing altitude. The new paper points out that space weather forecasts ahead of the May storm failed to accurately predict ...

“It is a long, sad history,” said Dennis Hartmann ... a decade ago with an effort to merge military and civilian weather satellites into a single project. After its cost doubled and its ...

Satellite imagery — showing scenes of extreme weather from space — reveals a ... Eighteen of the top 20 largest wildfires in California state history have occurred since 2003.