"Showers and thunderstorms located over the Florida peninsula, the southeastern U.S. coast, the northwestern Bahamas, and the ...

director of the NOAA National Hurricane Center in Miami, previously told FLORIDA TODAY, a USA TODAY Network newspaper. "Satellite imagery is our first line of defense against hurricanes," Brennan ...

Geostationary satellites, like ones monitored by NOAA, are a critical weather forecasting tool during hurricane season, June 1 to Nov. 30, in Florida.