Case studies Imagery and case studies of weather phenomena and environmental events observed by EUMETSAT's fleet of weather satellites. Sort Refine results Categories Weather Meteosat Land Data Tags MFG MVIRI Europe Date 1978 Date August December SHOW ALL Sort by Start Date Order Ascending Descending 2 results Case study 29 December 1978 09:00–12:30 UTC and 31 December 09:30–12:30 UTC Severe snowstorms across parts of Europe seen by Meteosat-1 Parts of Germany, Denmark, the UK and Ireland had severe snowstorms and blizzards during the last days of 1978. Case study 7 August 1978 11:00–18:00 UTC How Meteosat-1 'saw' severe storm over Switzerland There was catastrophic rain and wind damage over the northern part of Canton Ticino in southern Switzerland on 7 August 1978.