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Looking at visible satellite this afternoon, here's what stands out: 🌀Hurricane Erin swirling off the Atlantic Coast ⛅️Expansive cumulus fields across the Midwest and Southeast 🌦️Band of clouds with showers associated with a cold front from Utah to North Dakota 🔥Smoke from wildfires burning in Idaho ☀️Clear skies (and hot temperatures) across the West NOAA Satellite and Information Service | U.S. National Weather Service (NWS)

Almost 50 fires were burning across New South Wales this afternoon, nearly half of which were uncontained. This visible satellite loop shows plumes of smoke from two large fires burning near Kempsey and Port Stephens. Smoke can be seen travelling south before being carried over Sydney by this afternoon's sea breeze. More information here: http://www.weatherzone.com.au/news/nsw-fire-update/525338 | Weatherzone

Looking for real-time satellite imagery? NOAA's advanced satellites provide constant monitoring of global weather events around the world 24 hours a day, seven days a week. The GOES East and West satellites provide frequently updated visible and infrared images of the U.S. territories every 30 minutes, while the Suomi NPP satellite provides highly detailed images of the planet every day. This colorized infrared imagery, showing the last three days of weather over the United States, is just one e