Weather
Earth from weather satellites, live
Geostationary weather satellites photograph the whole face of the Earth every 10 minutes. TAKIP stitches GOES, Meteosat and Himawari into one live view of the planet.
What you see
- GOES-East and GOES-West in true colour over the Americas and the Pacific.
- Meteosat over Europe, Africa and the Atlantic.
- Himawari over Asia and Australia, in infrared.
Where the data comes from
- NASA GIBSGOES GeoColor imagery, and Himawari infrared over NASA’s Blue Marble and Black Marble.
- EUMETSATMeteosat imagery from its view service.
Frames every 10 minutes, arriving about 30 to 40 minutes after they are taken. The map checks every 5 minutes.
Good to know
- The Himawari sector is infrared cloud over a fixed picture of the ground, not true colour.
- Detail stops at about zoom 7.
- Not shown while History is open.
Goes well with
Live cloudsGlobal cloud cover from NOAA’s mosaic of weather satellites, refreshed hourly and drawn in 3D over the map, so you can see where the skies are clear.
Daily satellite imagesNASA’s daily true-colour images of the whole Earth from VIIRS and MODIS, back to February 2000, on a map that follows History and Replay to any day.
Rain radarLive weather radar on a map, from RainViewer: rain and snow seen by ground radars worldwide over the last two hours, looping to show where it is heading.