Thunderstorms producing very large hail near Paris, France
Meteosat-10 0.7 µm visible channel images (click to play animation)
Severe thunderstorms developed over parts of France on 09 June 2014, some of which produced very large hail (photos). EUMETSAT Meteosat-10 1-km resolution 0.7 µm visible channel images (above; click image to play animation; also available as an MP4 movie file) and 3-km resolution 10.8 µm IR channel images (below; click image to play animation; also available as an MP4 movie file) revealed some interesting details in the thunderstorm structure: a narrow flanking line was seen on the visible imagery, and the storms exhibited well-defined “enhanced-V” signatures and thermal couplets on the IR imagery. For reference, the asterisk marks the location of the Charles De Gaulle Airport in Paris.
Meteosat-10 10.8 µm IR channel images (click to play animation)
The Suomi NPP satellite overpass of the region occurred around 12:15 UTC, allowing the VIIRS instrument to provide a 375-meter resolution true-color Red/Green/Blue (RGB) image of the developing thunderstorms (below, visualized using the SSEC RealEarth web map server).
Suomi NPP VIIRS true-color RGB image