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Changes to the Meteosat Active Fire Monitoring (FIR) product are now due to take place in August (previously end of July).

In the early weeks of 2007, heavy rain caused many deaths in Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo resulting from severe flooding and related accidents.

Severe storm at Klerksdorp, South Africa in November 2006.

Severe thunderstorms with golf ball size hail and flash floods hit Gauteng province of South Africa in late November.

Meteosat-8 spots series of dust outbreaks in March 2021.

Fires and rapidly growing burn scars over Mali and Burkina Faso.

In 2009, highly depressed rainfall was once again observed over a large portion of the Kenya.

Catastrophic floods hit Germany, Belgium and parts of West Europe mid July 2021.