Case studies

Imagery and case studies of weather phenomena and environmental events observed by EUMETSAT's fleet of weather satellites.

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January–December 2019

Image Library top ten for 2019

A look at our most popular case studies from 2019.

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21 December 2018 03:00 UTC

December solstice near the southern polar circle

December solstice occurred in 2018 at 22:23 UTC on 21 December and could be 'seen' in satellite imagery.

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15 November 2018 07:00–15:00 UTC

Contrail shadows over the stratus

Unusually shaped shadow contours of high contrail clouds, casted over the wide stratus field, were explored through various VIIRS (i.e. FCI proxy) and SEVIRI products.

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27 October 2018 00:00 UTC–02 November 00:00 UTC

Intense Mediterranean cyclone's alpine crossing

A cyclone that intensified over Mediterranean waters took a very direct path over the Alps.

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09 October 2018 09:55 UTC–10 October 02:40 UTC

Severe flash floods in Mallorca

Overnight 9/10 October 2018 severe storms caused devastating flash floods on the Spanish island of Mallorca.

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18 September 2018 00:00–21 September 00:00 UTC

Synoptic dipole over Europe

A vivid cyclone-anticyclone duo dominated the synoptic situation over Europe on 18-20 September 2018.

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30 August 2018 12:00 UTC–17 September 23:00 UTC

Hurricane Florence

Hurricane Florence was the first major hurricane of the 2018 North Atlantic hurricane season and caused major devastation when it hit the US east coast in mid-September.

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26 July 2018 04:00 UTC to 3 August 06:00 UTC

Dense dust outbreak across Arabian peninsula

Summer Shamal pushed dense dust across the Arabian peninsula and over the Arabian Sea in late summer 2018.

Dense dust outbreak across the Arabian peninsula

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30 June 2018 00:00–23:00 UTC

Sharp moisture boundary seen by SEVIRI and MODIS

A sharp low level moisture boundary that stretched over the central Europe in June 2018, was well observed by both the SEVIRI Dust RGB product and MODIS 0.935 µm channel.

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28 June 2018 12:07–23:59 UTC

Severe storm life-cycle observed through GOES satellite

Three major stages of the supercell storm, namely ‘Pre-convective Environment’, ‘Convective Initiation’ and ‘Mature Convective Storm’, were observed through ABI high resolution visible and infrared channels.