Case studies

An overview of some of the more significant weather events of 2015, using satellite data, including data from Meteosat and Metop.

Northern regions of Asturias and Cantabria in Spain were ravaged by hundreds of fires in December.

Meteosat-10 imagery showing the rapid development of Storm Desmond, which battered parts of the UK in early December.

Deep convection led to flash flooding in Calabria on 11 August.

Due to the hot summer and consequent dry soil, there were a number of fires in the Iberian peninsula, on 6-11 August.

In the night of 16/17 July wildfires broke out in the extreme south-eastern corner of the Peloponnese peninsula.

Recurring heatwaves caused droughts in parts of Central Europe in summer 2015.

On 13 June smoke from wildfires in Canada travelled over parts of Northern Europe.

Severe floods occurred in the Georgian capital Tbilisi, on 14 June after very heavy rainfall.