10 Years of Weather in 3 Minutes — August 22, 2013

10 Years of Weather in 3 Minutes

Images from NOAA's decommissioned GOES-12 satellite that provided "eye in the sky" monitoring of weather events since 2003 have been assembled in the video below.

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Images from NOAA’s decommissioned GOES-12 satellite that provided “eye in the sky” monitoring of weather events since 2003 have been assembled in the video below. Look for memorable weather events such as Hurricane Katrina (at 0:45) and Hurricane Sandy (2:50).

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