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Year of Weather
2024
Cyclone Belal as seen by Meteosat-10 over the Indian Ocean.
This week’s image of the week is of the Earth as seen from the vantage point of our Meteosat geostationary weather satellite 36,000km above our planet.
Celebrating World Wetlands Day.
Wildfires cause huge loss of life in Chile’s Valparaíso region.
This week’s image of the week is of the Earth as seen from the vantage point of geostationary weather satellites 36,000km above our planet.
The cloud patterns are known as von Kármán vortices and are formed over the ocean when islands disrupt the wind flow. The strength of the wind affects the patterns of the swirls.
This week’s image of the week is of Hurricane Beryl.
This week’s image of the week is of Hurricane Ernesto.
This week’s image of the week shows Storm Kathleen which brought strong winds and rain to the UK and Ireland during the weekend of 6-7 April 2024.
This week’s image of the week shows colourful phytoplankton off the coast of Argentina.
The bloom is most likely caused by coccolithophores (cyan colour) and other phytoplankton species. Phytoplankton play a key role in marine ecosystems as the basis of the food chain.