New satellite’s eye views of Europe and Africa streaming online

EUMETSAT has made near real-time imagery from the Meteosat-12 satellite available to the public via two new YouTube streams.

The two streams give close up views over Europe and Africa as seen from geostationary orbit, 36,000 km above the Earth.

The imagery is updated every ten minutes as data is received from the satellite.

During daylight hours the stream shows true colour imagery overlaid with lightning imagery. At night it switches to infrared (10.8 micron channel), overlaid on NASA's Black Marble night lights data. 

All times are in UTC (Coordinated Universal Time), and there is a 30-minute delay to allow time to receive and process it, before each image is added to the stream.

The streams embedded on any website, which make them useful for schools, newsrooms, or anyone running a weather-related site. 

Earth view - Europe

Earth view - Africa

Our other streams from Meteosat Second Generation and the Copernicus Sentinel-3 ocean monitoring satellites can be accessed here

Find out more

More information about Meteosat-12 and the MTG programme is available on the Meteosat series page. Satellite data and products are accessible through the EUMETSAT User Portal and real-time imagery can also be explored interactively via EUMETView.