Dakota Smith

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Hurricane Polo is looking extraordinary tonight. Sheesh.

Hurricane Polo looks simply spectacular from space. A Category 5 beast.

Alrighty, ready to see something really cool? The evolution of Hurricane Melissa's mesovortices at peak strength.

The incredible full day, high resolution view of Hurricane Polo today.

Absolutely breathtaking view of the Artemis II launch. Wow.

A display of pure power from Hurricane Melissa today. Remarkable satellite imagery.

This is something I have never seen before on satellite. Clouds perfectly outlining roads. Just incredibly neat imagery of Houston, Texas this morning. Massive shoutout to Ethan Mok who discovered it.

The impressive tornado scar from the EF3 that ripped across southwest Mississippi last week. It went through an area that was on fire about two months prior.

Weather satellites were able to see both the Artemis II launch and re-entry. Space is cool, satellites are cool. It's all cool!!!

That flow tho.

Holy smokes Hurricane Lowell's eye is incredible.

Aaaaand the Colorado Rockies are covered in smoke.

Alright, this is really freaking cool... There are mesovortices embedded in Super Typhoon Dolphin's higher level clouds.

The loud boom heard in Cleveland and the light seen across the Midwest and Mid-Atlantic... it was a meteor! GOES-19's geostationary lightning mapper picked up the brief flash of light.

The Eastern Pacific is printing major hurricanes. A spectacular satellite view of Hurricane Nolo this evening.

All sorts of cool, crazy things happening at the heart of a deepening nor'easter.

Obsessed with this view that shows the life and death of a thunderstorm in Manitoba this evening. Incredible we can see stuff like this from above.

Found this neat swirl off the western coast of Africa. Pops off a little convection at the end. Cute little guy.

Shout out to CIRA for finding one of the cooler satellite animations I've seen in a minute. Outflows and gravity waves gliding over Lake Superior.

Just an absurd amount of wildfires and smoke in Canada this evening.

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A dominant, persistent, and record-breaking heat dome. This satellite animation shows the evolution of the ridge over the last 6 days.

The evolution of this weekend's nor'easter.

This is one of the wilder satellite animations I've seen in a minute... Wildfires produce their own thunderstorms while smoke wraps around a low pressure. What a fascinating view out of southern Kansas this evening.

An absolute beast of storm charging from the Northern Plains into the Upper Midwest today.

This perspective of Hurricane Genevieve is blowing my mind a little. An absolutely amazing view of the storm's powerful eyewall.

Wildfires fill the skies with smoke over Florida and Georgia this afternoon.

A tornadic supercell erupting in northern Oklahoma this evening. Incredible, high-resolution satellite imagery from GOES-19.

An absolutely stunning view of a large haboob sweeping across Texas.

Ready for a downright beautiful display of fluid dynamics? The Fujiwhara effect between two mid-latitude cyclones in the North Pacific.

Typhoon Jangmi had an awesome mesovortex over the weekend.

A beast of a supercell in northern Texas this evening.

A firehose of smoke over the Northeast this evening. Just dreadful.

The beautiful life cycle of a storm at sea.

Incredible satellite imagery of the tornado outbreak underway across the central United States.

von Karman vortices are legitimately one of the coolest things our Earth creates. These gorgeous swirls formed off of Guadalupe Island earlier this week. Watch these wondrous whirls go.

A fascinating view of the long-track supercell that dropped huge hail in southern Minnesota today.

A very cool, compact cyclone in the Gulf of Alaska. A neat hi-res view from GOES-18.

An active morning already for Hawaii and a TON of lightning in the storm that hit the Big Island earlier. Hawaii faces another Kona storm while some areas are still recovering from the last two:

I am SO excited for this new chapter. Link below ⬇

Over 3,000 miles traveled and four landfalls in Australia. The incredible journey of Cyclone Narelle.