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Image of the week: Meteosat-12 - watching our weather

 

Europe’s most advanced weather satellite is now fully operational

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Meteosat-12 became fully operational today, and the satellite has been renamed from MTG-I1 to mark the occasion.

Last Updated

04 December 2024

Published on

04 December 2024

It is set to transform weather forecasting across Europe, Africa, and beyond.

What’s onboard?

The two main instruments on board Meteosat-12, the Flexible Combined Imager (FCI) and the Lightning Imager (LI), play a crucial role in enabling weather services to help protect lives and livelihoods by providing high-resolution, accurate data for predicting severe weather events.

Animation showing the build up of convective storms over central Africa on 1 December 2024, as seen by both onboard instruments FCI (imagery) and LI (lightning), working in combination.

 

Storm Bora moving across Greece on 29 November 2024.

Earth image

This image was captured by the FCI instrument on EUMETSAT’s Meteosat Third Generation satellite (MTG) on 4 December 2024.

The Meteosat weather satellites provide imagery for the early detection of fast-developing severe weather, weather forecasting and climate monitoring.

See imagery from Meteosat-12 live on our Earth view stream.

More info

Visualise MTG imagery on EUMETView

Meteosat weather satellites and Earth view livestream

Access weather data from the EUMETSAT User Portal

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