Year of weather 2023

Image of the week: Global weather from space

 

Watching our Earth from 36,000km

Year of weather 2023
Year of weather 2023

This week’s image of the week is of the Earth as seen from the vantage point of geostationary weather satellites 36,000km above our planet.

Last Updated

07 March 2024

Published on

06 March 2024

The composite image includes imagery from the geostationary satellites of EUMETSAT (Meteosat-9, -10 and -11), the National Ocean and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) in the US, the China Meteorological Administration (CMA) and the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA). 

A whole year of global weather imagery for 2023 is available in the visualisation below.

EUMETSAT’s Meteosat satellites are a key part of the global ring of geostationary weather satellites and observe the weather over Europe, Africa and the Indian Ocean. See their current view from our Earth view stream.

Weather satellite programmes are coordinated globally through the Coordination Group for Meteorological Satellites (CGMS), which turned 50 in 2022.
 

Earth view image

This image was captured by the imaging instruments on board weather satellites from Europe, US, China, and Japan. 

It shows infrared (IR 10.8) cloud data superimposed over NASA’s Blue Marble Next Generation ground maps. The cloud imagery is provided by Meteo-France.

More information

EUMETSAT's Meteosat satellites

Access weather data via EUMETSAT user portal

Visualise weather data with EUMETview 

CGMS turns 50