RapidScat Stories

During this season of El Nino influenced Pacific storms, NASA has been analyzing the storms that brought rain and snow to the U.S. West Coast. NASA’s RapidScat instrument spied tropical-storm-force winds in a weather system affecting the Pacific Northwestern U.S.…

NASA’s RapidScat instrument that flies aboard the International Space Station measured surface winds ahead of a powerful cold front that generated a line of strong to severe storms on Feb. 24. The cold front moved through the southeastern and Mid-Atlantic…

Update #8 – Jan. 25, 2016 – 12:07 PM EST NASA Provides a Look at Post-Blizzard Snowfall and Winds NASA satellites obtained a number of different views of the great winter storm that left many snowfall records from Virginia to…