New satellite will help forecasting

Our understanding of weather and our forecasting of it is about to get better. A brand new Satellite will launch early Thursday morning to enhance our forecasting and monitoring of bad weather and study of the climate. The satellite will gather data on cloud cover, ocean color, and sea surface temperatures, as well as other data. All of this new information gets incorporated in the computer models that forecast the weather into the future. More

(Source: WWLP 22News - Oct 26)