Good website for satellite/ radar pictures West Africa?
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Good website for satellite/ radar pictures West Africa?
Back to West Africa soon.
Been a while since I operated over there. Searching for good websites where I can find satellite and/or radar images of this interesting area. Thanks in advance for useful links and hints...
Been a while since I operated over there. Searching for good websites where I can find satellite and/or radar images of this interesting area. Thanks in advance for useful links and hints...
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Eumetsat has great satellite imagery covering the whole continent . Takes a little while to search through the website initially .
examples :EUMETSAT IPPS animation - Meteosat 0 degree Visible 0.6 Central Africa
EUMETSAT IPPS animation - Meteosat 0 degree Visible 0.6 Western Africa
Those are visible images for central and west africa today
Below is the link to the west african IR image :
EUMETSAT IPPS animation - Meteosat 0 degree Infrared 3.9 Western Africa
Anyway , have a play with it , I'm sure you'll find it quite useful
examples :EUMETSAT IPPS animation - Meteosat 0 degree Visible 0.6 Central Africa
EUMETSAT IPPS animation - Meteosat 0 degree Visible 0.6 Western Africa
Those are visible images for central and west africa today
Below is the link to the west african IR image :
EUMETSAT IPPS animation - Meteosat 0 degree Infrared 3.9 Western Africa
Anyway , have a play with it , I'm sure you'll find it quite useful
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AllMetSat (be sure to check issue dates/times...!):
Africa
NOAA Int'l Sat shots:
AWC - International Satellite Imagery
Similar stuff to AllMetSat, but I like their bigger water vapour shot:
NRL Satellite Page
Basic Sat:
weather.com - Map Room - Satellite Map, Weather Map, Doppler Radar Africa: Satellite
All the above are generally similar, but sometimes one is more up-to-date than the others...
Lastly I'll include a link that's not sat/radar but has loads of wx analyses and forecasts:
Medium Range Forecasts for Africa
Just out of curiosity, to where in West Africa are you heading?
Africa
NOAA Int'l Sat shots:
AWC - International Satellite Imagery
Similar stuff to AllMetSat, but I like their bigger water vapour shot:
NRL Satellite Page
Basic Sat:
weather.com - Map Room - Satellite Map, Weather Map, Doppler Radar Africa: Satellite
All the above are generally similar, but sometimes one is more up-to-date than the others...
Lastly I'll include a link that's not sat/radar but has loads of wx analyses and forecasts:
Medium Range Forecasts for Africa
Just out of curiosity, to where in West Africa are you heading?
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Many thanks for the useful info, good and up to date images! Will proof to be tools to be used before each flight.
Will start operating out of ABJ throughout the whole West African sub region soon.
Will start operating out of ABJ throughout the whole West African sub region soon.
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EUMETSAT IPPS animation - Latest Images
This Is what I use besides the classic Jeppesen Wx Charts provided by the company.
Shoot me an email if you come in ABJ, i'm currently based there.
This Is what I use besides the classic Jeppesen Wx Charts provided by the company.
Shoot me an email if you come in ABJ, i'm currently based there.
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this is what we use ...
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agree with eumet sat
you can also use sat24 africa weather chart if you fly across the continent
Weather forecast Africa Satellite, Clouds, Astro, Sun over Africa, Middle East - Source: SAT24.com
you can also use sat24 africa weather chart if you fly across the continent
Weather forecast Africa Satellite, Clouds, Astro, Sun over Africa, Middle East - Source: SAT24.com
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I'm currently involved in a project to expand the European Meteosat met products to cover West Africa. We hope to make them available next summer, so just this is a bookmark to remind me to come back when they're online.
A few (big picture) examples of what is generated for Europe:
http://www.nwcsaf.org/NRT_images/SAF...-MAG1-LAST.GIF
http://www.nwcsaf.org/NRT_images/SAF...-MAG1-LAST.GIF
http://www.nwcsaf.org/NRT_images/SAF...-MAG1-LAST.GIF
http://www.nwcsaf.org/NRT_images/SAF...-MAG1-LAST.GIF
In the meantime I'd also recommend these images in addition to those already suggested.
Convective indications: EUMETSAT IPPS animation - Meteosat 0 degree Convection Full disc high resolution
Strong convection normally shows up as yellow. High(ish) clouds as pink, everything else as purple.
This image of cloud height can also be useful: EUMETSAT IPPS animation - Meteosat 0 degree Cloud Top Height
Although it does have a habit of overestimating the heights for Africa. As of now it's saying there's clouds up to about 19km in Central Africa in reality they're more like 17km.
A few (big picture) examples of what is generated for Europe:
http://www.nwcsaf.org/NRT_images/SAF...-MAG1-LAST.GIF
http://www.nwcsaf.org/NRT_images/SAF...-MAG1-LAST.GIF
http://www.nwcsaf.org/NRT_images/SAF...-MAG1-LAST.GIF
http://www.nwcsaf.org/NRT_images/SAF...-MAG1-LAST.GIF
In the meantime I'd also recommend these images in addition to those already suggested.
Convective indications: EUMETSAT IPPS animation - Meteosat 0 degree Convection Full disc high resolution
Strong convection normally shows up as yellow. High(ish) clouds as pink, everything else as purple.
This image of cloud height can also be useful: EUMETSAT IPPS animation - Meteosat 0 degree Cloud Top Height
Although it does have a habit of overestimating the heights for Africa. As of now it's saying there's clouds up to about 19km in Central Africa in reality they're more like 17km.
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A very old post but I recently set up a site putting all EUMETSAT images for Africa in one place which might be useful to some of you. It's at africanweather.co.za
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