The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration released several of its most striking images of 2025, homing in on extreme weather events that took place in California, Hawaii and Texas over the past year. 

Described as the “western hemisphere’s most sophisticated weather-observing and environmental-monitoring system,” the GOES-R satellite series is capable of providing data from diverse weather phenomena. This year, it captured several images of Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano, which erupted from December 2024 to February 2025. In March, the lava fountain reached heights of over 1,000 feet, the highest it’s been in about 50 years. 

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A NOAA GOES satellite also captured smoke from the Palisades, Eaton and........

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