GOES Weather Satellite
Explore the latest full-disk NOAA GOES-East and GOES-West weather imagery.
How to use this tracker
GeoColor resembles a natural-color view by day. Infrared imagery works day and night and highlights colder, higher cloud tops.
The GOES Weather Satellite tool above provides a simple way to inspect current NOAA geostationary satellite imagery. Switch between eastern and western coverage and compare GeoColor with infrared products to see large-scale cloud patterns and weather systems.
What GOES imagery can show
Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites observe the same broad region continuously from geostationary orbit. That makes them especially useful for following evolving cloud fields, tropical systems, fronts and convection over large areas.
NOAA describes GeoColor as a multispectral product that approximates natural-color imagery during the day and blends infrared information at night. Infrared imagery is useful after dark because it measures emitted radiation rather than depending on reflected visible sunlight.
Data source
Images are loaded from the official NOAA/NESDIS/STAR GOES Imagery Viewer. The page uses provider imagery rather than generating synthetic weather images.
What this page is not
Satellite imagery is observational data, not a complete local weather forecast. It does not by itself tell you surface temperature, rainfall at your address or whether a storm will intensify. Use official weather warnings and forecasts for safety decisions.
Related observing tools
For skywatching, combine cloud context from this page with Sky Tonight. For space-weather conditions, use Aurora Forecast Tonight.