Weather satellites come in many shapes and sizes, but a new instrument to study the atmosphere has been delivered to the International Space Station. The Cloud-Aerosol Transport System (CATS), is an instrument for mea ...
Read MoreJet streams are fast-moving currents of air that are the drivers of the weather we experience at the Earth's surface. These narrow air currents are found high in the atmosphere, near the tropopause, which is a boundary b ...
Read MoreThese images were published on the EUMETSAT Flickr channel during 2014. Some were viewed a lot because they were dangerous weather events, while others were unusual views of other natural phenomena. 1. Typhoon Halong T ...
Read MoreThe winter solstice took place at 23:03 UTC on 21 December. The disc seen from Meteosat was mostly dark at the exact time of the solstice. From the solstice onwards, Europe makes its way back towards the longer days a ...
Read MoreWeather forecasters get asked every year whether there might be a White Christmas - snowy weather. The idea that Christmas should feature snow may be relatively recent - many point at the sentimental song "White Chris ...
Read MoreWith six C11-telescopes on the roof, Carl-Fuhlrott-Gymnasium in Wuppertal, Germany, keeps a keen eye on the sky. The school uses a EUMETCast station primarily for its actual purpose: a weather forecast, planning ahead fo ...
Read MoreA new video from the "It's Okay to be Smart" series sets out the facts of climate change - including answers to some of the common myths about how the world has changed over decades and centuries of human life. All of ...
Read MoreThe Pacific hurricane season officially finished on 30 November, after a particularly active few months. While the Atlantic was relatively quiet, the Eastern Pacific saw 20 named storms, making it all the way to "V" in t ...
Read MoreMasters student Christa Stipp’s childhood interest in space and the stars led to her undertaking work experience at EUMETSAT. Taking part in EUMETSAT's work experience programme triggered Christa Stipp's decision to s ...
Read MoreHalf a century ago, NASA launched the Nimbus-1 satellite. It was designed to test key instruments for the weather satellites that would come after it, and it worked for just under one month. A successful series of Nimbus ...
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