EUMETSAT Meteosat-10 6.25 µm water vapor channel images (above; click image to play animation; also available as an MP4 movie file) showed the well-defined circulation associated with an unusually strong (for July) storm centered just north of the Netherlands on 25 July 2015. Some locations experienced hurricane-force surface winds with this storm... Read More
EUMETSAT Meteosat-10 High Resolution Visible (0.8 µm) images (above; click to play animation; also available as an MP4 movie file) revealed the hazy signature of what appeared to be a ribbon of smoke aloft being transported eastward across the North Atlantic Ocean by the circulation of a large area of low pressure... Read More
Suomi NPP VIIRS (above; toggle with Google maps) and Aqua MODIS (below; toggle with Google maps) true-color Red/Green/Blue (RGB) images visualized using SSEC RealEarth showed 2 smoke plumes from wildfires burning in Greece on 17 July 2015. These fires were causing evacuations in some areas, according to the Wildfire Today site.Surface observations around the time of the images... Read More
EUMETSAT Meteosat-10 SEVIRI High Resolution Visible (0.8 µm) images (above; click to play animation) showed the development of an isolated supercell thunderstorm that produced large hail and a violent tornado (1 fatality; estimated EF3 damage) near Venice, Italy (station identifier LIPZ) around 1530 UTC on 08 July 2015. Additional information... Read More
