How NASA's new weather satellite will help with wildfire tracking and forecasting - KCRA Sacramento

NOAA's GOES-T weather satellite was launched from NASA's Kennedy Space Center earlier this afternoon. It will begin sending high-resolution images for forecasters to use by early May.

The first step in making an accurate weather forecast is knowing what is happening right now. To do that, reliable data is needed for the forecast area as well as upstream areas where weather systems… [+3044 chars]

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