EUMETSAT Meteosat-11 Water Vapor images (above) showed a warming/drying signature (shades of yellow to orange) within the core of a rapidly-intensifying midlatitude cyclone that eventually passed over Iceland on 14 October 2026 (1200 UTC surface analysis). A record-low October barometric pressure of 937.5 hPa was recorded at Vatnsskarðshólar (after altitude adjustment), breaking the... Read More
1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector GOES-19 (GOES-East) True Color RGB images from the CSPP GeoSphere site (above) provided a view of the rocket condensation cloud resulting from the launch of EUMETSAT MTG-I2 (Meteosat Third Generation Imager-2) from Europe’s Spaceport (the Guiana Space Centre) near Kourou, French Guiana at 2011 UTC on 27... Read More
In the late afternoon of 25 August 2026, a series of strong thunderstorms formed in the south of France. The most destructive part of this was a tornado that hit the village of Pomas, located approximately 50 miles (80 km) southeast of Toulouse. Dozens of people were hurt and hundreds... Read More
Just north of Libya on the afternoon of 17 March 2026, a large cyclone can be seen forcing a significant amount of dust from the Sahara to the Mediterranean. This true-color view from EUMETSAT’s Meteosat Third Generation (MTG) Flexible Combined Imager (FCI) depicts this situation beautifully. Since MTG-FCI has three... Read More
