Online weather satellite images (real time)

Gordon

A mate of mine was asking me if there exists a website that has real time up to date satellite images of the weather. I of course had no idea, but I thought you guys here may know. I've seen loads of satellite images but are they real time or a few hours old?

Thanks.

Snowbie

As far as i know it is impossible to get near real time sat images.Closest would be an hour which is fast enough.
The process is a sat snapshot from a Geo stationary satelite,which is then beamed to NOAA/meterological type institute and is processed and released to the public or on a met site.

It takes about an hour and a bit.I havin heard of real time.

ninebeanrows

The met services get 15 minute updates but we get 30 minute updated satellite and it is not just for over British Isles. The EUMETEOSAT of europe is the most available.


http://wind.met.fu-berlin.de/cgi-bin/meteosat.cgi?speed=8&count=48&intervall=30&refresh=10&playmode=Endlos

I use the above most often

Gordon

OK, cool thanks for the info. And thanks for the link Weathercheck.

Snowbie

Weathercheck wrote:

The met services get 15 minute updates but we get 30 minute updated satellite and it is not just for over British Isles. The EUMETEOSAT of europe is the most available.


http://wind.met.fu-berlin.de/cgi-bin/meteosat.cgi?speed=8&count=48&intervall=30&refresh=10&playmode=Endlos

I use the above most often

Kewel,didnt know about that one.:)