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- December 2022 - Solar Prominence Eruptions
- November 2022 - Mauna Loa Eruption
- November 2022 - Lake-Effect Snow in North America
- October 2022 - Simultaneous Volcanic Eruptions in The Kuril Islands
- September 2022 - Severe Storms Over Italy
- August 2022 - Hot and Dry Weather Over North-Western Europe
- July 2022 - Phytoplankton Blooms
- June 2022 - Final Image from Meteosat-8 Received
- May 2022 - Dust-Infused Baroclinic Storm Cloud Over Central Europe
- April 2022 - Von Kármán Vortices Downstream of The Canary Islands
8 December 2022
We finish off our 2022 satellite image highlights with a view not (as usual) of the Earth, but rather of the Sun. The image above is created using data from GOES-16's Solar Ultraviolet Imager (SUVI), a sophisticated extreme ultraviolet (EUV) telescope. This instrument allows us to monitor the Sun's very hot outer atmosphere (the corona), enabling us to see EUV photons that are created in the plasma of the corona but which are not visible from the ground due to absorption by the Earth's atmosp...
28 November 2022
Mauna Loa, considered to be the world's largest active volcano, began erupting on 27 November 2022, the first time it had erupted since 1984. Little or no volcanic ash was injected into the atmosphere from this, but significant amounts of gaseous sulphur dioxide (SO2) were observed from the eruption over a period of around two weeks. The image above shows a well-defined plume of SO2 observed on 28 November 2022, derived from the TROPOMI instrument on the Copernicus Sentinel-5 Precursor satell...
21 November 2022
Lake-effect snow is a phenomenon that often occurs in North America during autumn and winter, as cold air moves across the warmer open waters of the Great Lakes. The ensuing warming of the atmosphere at low levels causes de-stabilisation, producing rising air parcels. These in turn develop into narrow bands of convective cloud, oriented along the wind flow, that can rapidly deposit large amounts of snow downwind. The above images show data from the VIIRS instrument on the NOAA-20 satellite, o...
16 October 2022
The images above show the unusual situation of two volcanoes, around only 60 km from each other, erupting at the same time. The images were captured at around 03:00 UTC on the 16th October 2022. The more northerly of the two erupting volcanoes is Alaid, the highest and northern-most volcano in the Kuril archipelago. The eruption seen just to the south of this is from the Chikurachki stratovolcano, which forms the highest peak on Paramushir, a larger island in the northern Kurils just south of...
8 September 2022
Severe storms caused disruption in many parts of Italy during September 2022, and the above images show some of the storms that developed in the early hours of 8 September and persisted for much of the day. In particular, the left-hand image from 0645 UTC shows a large mesoscale convective system (MCS) that developed over the warm waters of the Tyrrhenian Sea. This system was accompanied by strong winds, lightning, heavy precipitation, and reports of a tornado that hit the coastal city of Civ...
10 August 2022
This image comes from the NOAA/NASA NOAA-20 satellite, showing a true-colour visible picture of the United Kingdom and western Europe at 1202 UTC on 10 August 2022 during a prolonged spell of hot and dry weather. High pressure was dominant over southern England and northern France, resulting in almost completely clear skies over the UK, with the exception of some cloud over north-west Scotland. France also is seen to be almost completely without cloud. Light winds were generally from the sout...
6 July 2022
The top image shows large blooms of microscopic phytoplankton in the Black Sea on 6 July 2022. These blooms often occur at this time of year as sunlight levels increase, helping these microscopic marine algae to synthesise their own food via chlorophyll. The image comes from the NOAA/NASA Suomi-NPP satellite, a polar-orbiting satellite which collects data while circling the Earth passing over the north and south poles. One of the images we can create from the VIIRS instrument on this satellit...
1 June 2022
On 1st June 2022 we said farewell to Meteosat-8 after nearly 20 years of service. Although for many years situated over the Greenwich (0º longitude) meridian, the satellite has served the final years of its life offering geostationary weather data over the Indian Ocean Data Coverage region (centred at a longitude of 41.5º), which includes eastern Europe, the Middle East, and western Asia. Meteosat-8 will shortly be firing its thrusters for a final time, propelling it deeper into space to a gr...
6 May 2022
In early May 2022, a large storm carried clouds of Saharan dust northwards, up into central Europe, and also brought distinctive high-altitude cirrus clouds infused with this dust — an example of a so-called Dust-Infused Baroclinic Storm (DIBS)cloud. It is thought that the dust particles act as plentiful ice nuclei in cases such as this, leading to changes in the cirrus clouds' microphysical properties, and lending them the distinctive mottled or "pock-marked" appearance seen in the large are...
28 April 2022
These spectacular cloud streets, known as von Kármán vortices, are formed when a low-level flow of air is disturbed by the presence of an island (or in this case several islands) rising out of the ocean, the diversion of the flow around the island causing spiralling cloud patterns to form downstream. In this case, these clouds were spotted in our satellite imagery during the morning of the 28 April 2022 to the south-west of the Canary Islands. The left-hand image is created from visible and n...
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