Image of the week: Storm Kathleen

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This week’s image of the week shows Storm Kathleen which brought strong winds and rain to the UK and Ireland during the weekend of 6-7 April 2024.

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11 April 2024

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11 April 2024

Storm Kathleen was a deep area of low pressure that moved towards the UK and Ireland from the southwest, bringing unseasonably strong winds and causing travel and power disruption.

The storm was named by the Irish Meteorological Service (Met É ireann) after two leading Irish scientists: Kathleen “Kay” Antonelli/McNulty, a pioneering computer programmer and Kathleen Lonsdale, a leading crystallographer.

Storm Kathleen

This image was captured by the OLCI instrument onboard Copernicus Sentinel-3 on 7 April 2024.

EUMETSAT operates the Copernicus Sentinel-3 satellites, in cooperation with ESA, and delivers the marine data on behalf of the European Union.

The storm was also tracked by the geostationary Meteosat Second Generation weather satellite - see animation below.

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