Case studies Imagery and case studies of weather phenomena and environmental events observed by EUMETSAT's fleet of weather satellites. Sort Refine results Categories Land Satellites Weather Data Metop Tags AVHRR Metop-A GOES ASCAT North America, Central America & Caribbean S America Terra/Aqua SNPP MODIS VIIRS Atlantic Ocean Date 2015 2012 SHOW ALL Sort by Start Date Order Ascending Descending 2 results Case study 26 March 2015 13:30 UTC Rains over Atacama desert On Thursday 26th March 2015, an unusual rain event brought almost an inch of precipitation to the Atacama, Antofagasta and Coquimbo regions. Case study 29 October 2012 00:00 UTC Hurricane Sandy hits the USA Hurricane Sandy hits the northeast coast of the USA.