Zoom Earth shows live weather satellite images of the Earth in a fast, zoomable map.
Explore near real-time weather images, rainfall radar maps, and animated wind maps.
Track tropical cyclones, severe storms, wildfires, natural hazards and more.
Sources and Acknowledgements
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Live weather images are updated every 10 minutes from NOAA GOES and JMA Himawari-8 geostationary satellites.
EUMETSAT Meteosat images are updated every 15 minutes.
Blue clouds at night represent low-lying clouds and fog.
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Tropical cyclone tracks and forecast maps are created using the most recent data from NHC, JTWC, NRL and IBTrACS.
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Animated surface wind speed forecast maps are generated using the NOAA-NWS GFS model.
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Rain radar maps are provided by RainViewer.
Coverage is limited to areas with radar, and may show anomalies.
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Fires & Heat shows the locations of wildfires and sources of high temperature using data from FIRMS and InciWeb.
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High-definition satellite images are updated twice a day from NASA-NOAA polar-orbiting satellites Suomi-NPP, and MODIS Aqua and Terra, using services from GIBS, part of EOSDIS.
Imagery is captured at approximately 10:30 local time for “AM” and 13:30 local time for “PM”.
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Imagery at high zoom levels is provided by Microsoft.
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