The Japan Meteorological Agency's Himawari-8 satellite captured this GeoColor imagery of a disturbance to the north of Australia, along with a line of clouds bisecting the continent, in the early morning hours of December 20, 2016. Although Australia is rather dry -- it is estimated that roughly 80 percent of the continent received less than 24 inches of rain each year -- the tropical areas in northern Australia typically receive a fair amount of rain from October to April, as warm moist air fro

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