Weather Satellites
International Weather Archive has worldwide weather satellite coverage of North America, South America, Europe, Asia, and Australia. Our image archives go back 2 months.
Click on one of the following links for more detailed information on one of the 5 geostationary satellites that we currently have in our archive. |
| Satellite |
Regions |
| NOAA GOES East |
North America, South America, Atlantic Ocean |
| NOAA GOES West |
Pacific Ocean, North America, South America |
| EUMETSAT Meteosat-7 |
Europe, Africa, Asia |
| EUMETSAT Meteosat-9 |
Atlantic Ocean, Europe, Africa |
| JMA MTSAT-1R |
Asia, Oceana, Pacific Ocean |
Weather satellite animation viewer
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Our weather satellite animation viewer allows you to view large animations of weather systems over time.
View full disk and regional images. View the last 24 hours, or all of last month.
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Missing Spring and Summer Images At the time of spring (mid-March) and fall (mid-September) equinoxes, the satellites conserve power while in the earth's shadow, and satellite imagery is not available for up to a few hours at a time each night when the sun is behind the earth.
Satellite Coverage Regions, Bands and TimesInternational Weather Archive maintains the following images in its archive:
| Satellite |
Longitude |
Regions |
Visible band |
IR bands |
| GOES West |
135° West |
Full disk, North, South* |
0.55 - 0.75um |
IR2 (3.80 - 4.00um), IR3 (6.50 - 7.00um),
IR4 (10.20 - 11.20um) , IR5 (11.50 - 12.50um) |
| GOES East |
75° West |
Full disk, North, South* |
0.55 - 0.75um |
IR2 (3.80 - 4.00um), IR3 (6.50 - 7.00um),
IR4 (10.20 - 11.20um) , IR5 (11.50 - 12.50um) |
| Meteosat-9 |
0° East |
Full disk and 3x3 grid |
yes |
IR (3.90um), IR (10.8um), Water Vapor |
| Meteosat-7 |
57° East |
Full disk and 3x3 grid |
0.7um |
IR (11.5um), Water Vapor |
| MTSAT-1R |
140° East |
Full disk |
yes |
IR |
We currently have archived images going back 2 months. The time interval between images varies depending on satellite and region. Details on time period between of the images in our archive are in the following table:
| Satellite |
Time between images |
Notes |
| GOES West |
1 hour* |
*Time between full disk region images is 3 hours |
| GOES East |
1 hour* |
*Time between full disk region images is 3 hours |
| Meteosat-9 |
3 hours* |
*Due to EUMETSAT usage policies, time between images that are within the last 24 hours is 6 hours. North region (West Europe) is updated hourly when images are more than 24 hours old |
| Meteosat-7 |
3 hours* |
*Due to EUMETSAT usage policies, time between images that are within the last 24 hours is 6 hours. |
| MTSAT-1R |
1 hour |
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