Met Office: Satellite imagery

	Satellite imagery

WORLDWIDE IMAGERY
Europe	Africa	The Americas	Asia/Australasia
Small infrared	Infrared	North America	Asia
Large infrared	Full Earth disc	South America	Australasia
Visible		Full Earth disc	Full Earth disc
24 hour animation
Full Earth disc

The above image is a tropical mercator composite of the entire globe taken using the infrared channel. Click on it to select a bigger view of a world region.

Satellite images are updated every six hours (except Europe visible - once per day at 1200GMT).
Europe IR and visible images available on MetWEB, updated hourly.

Missing images
During the equinoxes the geostationary satellites pass through the earth's shadow. Because of this the transponders of the satellite are switched off to conserve battery power, so some images will not be available.