EUMeTrain

The EUMeTrain Consortium is meeting in Helsinki at FMI from 28-30 April to discuss about the past & future training materials, courses and other project activites related to satellite meteorology. 🛰️⛈️🌨️

April weather briefing recording, presented by Zsófia Kocsis from HungaroMet, is now available online: youtube.com/watch?v=u7enzD…

In EUMETView, AFA shows the 5-minute flash count within the accumulated flash area by combining 10 half-minute AFA products. An overshooting top of the cumulonimbus can be seen overlapping with the area of the highest flash count, indicating the most active convective core. 2/2

GeoColour RGB and LI Accumulated Flash Area – 19 April 2026, 16:30 UTC – A severe storm is pictured over northern Italy in the GeoColour RGB product and in its composite with the LI Level 2 Accumulated Flash Area (AFA) visualisation product. 1/2

This channel is particularly useful for monitoring developing convection, dry intrusions, and environments supportive of severe weather. White to green shades represent clouds and strong convective updrafts, while yellow to red shades indicate dry air. (2/2)

GOES East 7.3 µm (colorized) – 15 April 2026, 08:50 UTC – An active thunderstorm‑conducive weather pattern is bringing a threat of severe weather to parts of the southern US. The GOES‑16 water vapor band 10, is sensitive to moisture primarily in the mid‑troposphere. (1/2)

The clouds on the western side of the cyclone and over northwestern Morocco are cyan, indicating low to mid-level water clouds. Cloud Type RGB provides distinction between cloud types through its colour contrast, combining information about cloud density, height, and phase. 2/2

FCI Cloud Type RGB – 8 April 2026, 12:30 UTC – A cyclone developed over the Atlantic Ocean, southwest of the Iberian Peninsula. Around its core and over the Iberian Peninsula, thick ice clouds, shown in yellow, are visible and accompanied by thin cirrus clouds in red. 1/2

📝The latest issue of The Training Bulletin is out. Available to read here: resources.eumetrain.org/the_training_b…

Save the Date for another EUMeTrain Event Week which will be organized in June 2026. 🔥 Topic: Forest fires and fire monitoring 📅 Date: 1 - 3 June 2026 📍 Location: Online More information with detailed agenda coming soon!

The prevailing wind patterns have continued transporting the dust westward over the Canary Islands into early April. The dust appears in brown tones. The image also highlights upper‑level circulation patterns, as the dust plume curves southward to the west of the islands. (2/2)

FCI True Color RGB – April 2, 2026, 08:50 UTC – A strong Harmattan surge wind event on March 30, driven by the dry northeasterly winds that blow from the Sahara toward West Africa and the Atlantic, raised large quantities of Saharan dust into the atmosphere. (1/2)

Recording of our new weather briefing presented by Ângela Lourenço and Bruno Cafe (IPMA) is now available online: youtube.com/watch?v=gIFnJ7…

The Airmass RGB is great at distinguishing moist and dry airmasses in the atmosphere. The dry air mass is seen in red, hinting at the position of the jet stream. The blue area is cold and ozone rich polar air mass. (2/2)

FCI Airmass RGB – 24 March 2026, 21:00 UTC – A low-pressure system is approaching Finland from the southwest. The high-level thick frontal clouds associated with precipitation can be seen in white over the Baltic Sea and southern Sweden and Finland. (1/2)

In addition, severe multicell thunderstorms have developed in northern Florida. This product provides continuous day‑night coverage for monitoring convective severe‑weather signatures and can also be used to assess tropical storm intensity. (2/2)

Goes Colorized IR Clouds – 16 March, 09:20 UTC – A line of thunderstorms associated with a sharp cold front is affecting central and eastern U.S. The strongest storms, with the coldest cloud tops (dark red to hues of black), are stretching from Louisiana toward the NE. (1/2)

⛵️Learn about Atmospheric Rivers and how to identify them! Our new Training Module is now available on: eumetrain.org/resources/atmo…

Dynamical processes within the upper level flow have led to the amplification of a pronounced ridge over the western North Atlantic. In response, the next downstream trough has deepened to the west of the Iberian Peninsula, clearly visible in the Airmass RGB. (2/2)

GOES East Airmass RGB – 24 February, 06:30 UTC - To the east of the strong low pressure system currently located over eastern Canada (the same “bomb-cyclone” that broke snowfall records in the US). (1/2)