A new four-dimensional animation, created from Meteosat Third Generation (MTG) imager and sounder data, offers an unprecedented view of how those storms, and other events across Europe, formed over ...

EUMETSAT’s commitment to the African meteorological community has been matched by delivery. The first PUMA-2025 reception station was installed two years ago; today the full network of 56 stations is ...

The very first image stretches from southern Germany to North Africa, with Italy and the Mediterranean Sea at its centre under largely clear skies. Captured from 30 September, a little over two weeks ...

The authors of a recent EUMETSAT case study say this year's extreme El Niño conditions may have partly amplified the hot, dry conditions seen across much of Europe in 2026. “El Niño and its cold ...

The Sentinel-4 Ultraviolet, Visible and Near-Infrared instrument is carried on board Meteosat Third Generation Sounder 1 (MTG-S1). By providing hourly observations of key atmospheric constituents over ...

The gallery on this site is not available to bots, scrapers or AI crawlers. The European operational satellite agency for monitoring weather, climate and the environment from space on behalf of our ...

Copernicus Sentinel‑3C will continue the high-precision, systematic monitoring of the world's oceans, land, ice, and atmosphere - a mission that Sentinel‑3 satellites have delivered since 2016. You ...

Soaring out over the Atlantic, one of the oceans it will spend its lifetime observing, the Copernicus Sentinel-3C satellite successfully launched from Europe's spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, on a ...

MTG-I2 launched from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana on 27 August 2026 and has now reached its geostationary orbit, around 36,000 km above Earth. During LEOP, carried out for EUMETSAT by ...

EUMETSAT's new Climate Anomalies and Normals service is a web portal designed to help anyone working with climate data explore this, from national climate services and researchers to media and the ...

EUMETSAT's satellite programmes have been building relevant data records for more than 40 years, and a new service now puts this archive within reach of a wider audience. Within days of a month's end, ...

The smoke and haze are caused by a mix of agricultural burning and peatland fires, which have been exacerbated by El Niño-related drought conditions. The haze has caused severe air quality problems in ...