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Satellite
The last three hours of weather as the geostationary satellites see it, played as a loop: GOES-West, GOES-East, Meteosat and Himawari together cover everything between the polar caps.
What it shows
The last three hours of weather as the geostationary satellites see it, played as a loop: GOES-West, GOES-East, Meteosat and Himawari together cover everything between the polar caps. Infrared works day and night and shows cloud by how cold its top is; visible is reflected sunlight and goes dark at night. Under the cursor the panel names the satellite and the minute of its image.
Where the data comes from
NOAA GOES-East and GOES-West (ABI band 13 and band 2) and JMA Himawari (AHI band 13 and band 3) via NASA EOSDIS GIBS, every 10 minutes; EUMETSAT Meteosat 0° (SEVIRI IR 10.8 and VIS 0.6) via EUMETView WMS, every 15 minutes. Frames every 15 minutes over the last three hours, refreshed every 5.
Reading the map
Infrared: NASA's brightness temperature scale, from the grey of warm surfaces to the colours of cold cloud tops down to −92 °C; Meteosat in grey, brighter is colder. Visible: dark is sea, forest or night, white is cloud and snow.
Units Infrared: brightness temperature in °C (NASA scale, read at the cursor under GOES and Himawari); Meteosat and visible 0.64 µm are greyscale, with no value.
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