The Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (or GOES) are a pair of satellites that helps with weather monitoring and forecasting for the United States. Currently GOES-11 covers the western United States, while GOES-12 covers the eastern United States.

Click on the link below to see a 10 day movie covering the period from March 21 to March 31 for the eastern U.S.

New England received a second week of flooding from March 21-31, 2010 when a parade of three large storms flooded the upper Midwest and Northeast in the second half of the month. The Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite called GOES-12 captured a movie of those storms as they dumped heavy rainfall during the last 10 days of March.

via NASA – Second March Northeastern U.S. Flooding Event Covered in ‘GOES’ Movie.

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