The View from a Geostationary Weather Satellite.

Watch this video showing the movement of Tropical Storm Danielle in the Gulf of Mexico June 18 - 20, 2016. Danielle started off the east coast of Mexico and went inland.  It did not strengthen into a hurricane.

 The GOES satellite orbits the earth in the same place as the Earth rotates, so the satellite gets data from the same area on Earth.  This is very important for weather satellites!