Satellite
Satellite images as a loop
About these images
The UK and Europe views come from Meteosat-12, which sits 36,000 km above the equator, over Africa, and scans Europe every 10 minutes. Each image is fetched once it’s complete, so the newest is 30 to 40 minutes old. Meteosat sees the far Atlantic at too low an angle for a clear picture, so the Europe view stops at 45°W.
The North Atlantic view comes from EUMETSAT’s Geo Ring, a mosaic of the weather satellites round the world, with the American GOES-East over the western Atlantic. It has an image every 3 hours, and each is fetched once the next is out, so the newest is 4½ to 6 hours old. It’s only in infrared: its colour images are black at night.
The images come from EUMETSAT’s EUMETView service, with coastlines and borders from Natural Earth.