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 Satellites Atmospheric Composition Data Metop Sentinel Tags Meteosat Second Generation (MSG) Asia AVHRR SEVIRI SLSTR Meteosat Third Generation (MTG) Sentinel-3 Africa Metop-A Metop-B Europe Himawari SNPP VIIRS AHI Date 2016 Date January April June November December SHOW ALL Sort by Start Date Order Ascending Descending 8 results Case study 24 December 2016 03:00 UTC–4 January 2017 03:00 UTC Lingering fog over the Arabian Peninsula From 24 December and for more than 10 days, a thick fog invaded the Arabian Gulf countries resulting in limited night-morning visibility. Case study 20 December 2016 00:00–10:45 UTC Snow over Jordan and northern parts of Saudi Arabia Overnight on 19-20 December 2016 there were heavy snowfalls in Jordan and in Turaif city in Saudi Arabia. Case study 08 December 2016 00:00 UTC–19 December 06:00 UTC Tropical Cyclone Vardah Using Meteosat-8 imagery it was possible to track the full lifetime of Tropical Cyclone Vardah. Case study 06 December 2016 00:00 UTC–09 December 23:45 UTC Night-time fog over India Meteosat-8 and Himawari-8 observe night-time fog formation in northern India in early December 2016. Case study 21 November 04:00 UTC–22 November 2016 19:00 UTC Dust over the Sea of Oman A large area of dust was seen by both Meteosat and Sentinel-3A as it travelled across parts of the Middle East in November 2016. Case study 21 June 2016 07:40 UTC and 08:25 UTC Convective storm with two above-anvil ice plumes AVHRR and SEVIRI products confirm that two above-anvil ice plumes consisted of small ice crystals. Case study 12 April 2016 00:00 UTC–18 April 13:30 UTC Tropical Cyclone Fantala Tropical Cyclone Fantala showed a very clearly defined eye as the storm reached Category 5 level in mid-April. Case study 18 January 2016 03:00–08:00 UTC Widespread fog over the Arabian peninsula Overnight widespread fog formed over parts of the south-eastern Arabian peninsula in mid-January 2016.
