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14 January 2019
Weather Satellites are Far More Vital Than You Think
I’ve written a lot here about weather satellites here, and how a decent forecast beyond three days would be impossible without them. They are indispensable to everyone from forecasters to firefighters to pilots. While you mainly see GOES (geostationary satellites) images on TV, I just finished a weathercast showing the image above from a satellite in Polar Orbit. I used it to show where the snow fell this weekend, but …
Dan Satterfield has worked as an on air meteorologist for 32 years in Oklahoma, Florida and Alabama. Forecasting weather is Dan's job, but all of Earth Science is his passion. This journal is where Dan writes about things he has too little time for on air. Dan blogs about peer-reviewed Earth science for Junior High level audiences and up.