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Full-disc satellite imagery of the Americas straight from the GOES satellites, refreshed every few minutes at absurd resolution.
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GOES Image Viewer sits in Weather Watching under Wander, filed as instant.
About this category: Wind maps, radar loops, satellite imagery and forecast models that look extraordinary regardless of whether you need to know about rain.
Yes. GOES Image Viewer is free to use and needs no account.
No. You can use GOES Image Viewer without signing up for anything.
Not well. We file GOES Image Viewer as desktop only, so open it on a laptop or desktop computer.
Yes, we file it as safe for work. It also works muted.
We file it as "Instant": Good within five seconds of loading.
Multi-model forecasts with a meteogram showing how confident the models actually are, which most weather apps quietly decline to admit.
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The thirty-minute aurora forecast as an oval of probability drawn over the poles, which is the only honest way to plan a night out for it.
The US National Weather Service radar, unstyled and authoritative, with warning polygons drawn straight over the raw returns.
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