Satellite
- RGB image, natural colours daytime RGB image (1.6 µm + 0.8 µm + 0.6 µm) is observable in daylight.
- Infrared image (10.8 µm) is observable in day and night.
The legend of day natural colours imagery:
Thick ice cloudiness (Cb, thick Cs). Colour of nontransparent cloudiness is determined by properties of its upper boundary and do not directly give information about cloud cover thickness
Thin ice cloudiness (Cs, Ci, Cc). Colours are strongly variable in dependence on solar illumination
Water and mixed-phase cloudiness (Ac, As, Cu, Sc, St). Cloudiness, which is lower and consists of larger droplets, is darker and more reddish
Cumulus clouds (Cu)
Cumulonimbus cloud (Cb)
The legend of the satellite imagery above Estonia:
 Thick ice cloudiness (Cb, thick Cs) |
 Thin ice cloudiness (Cs, Ci, Cc) |
 Thick intermediate cloudiness (As, Ac, Ns). The higher is the clouds’ upper boundary, the more reddish it is |
 Thin intermediate cloudiness (As, Ac) |
 Low cloudiness (St, Sc) or fog. The lower is clouds’ upper boundary, the more whitish it is |
 Low cloudiness (St, Sc) or fog. The lower is clouds’ upper boundary, the more whitish it is |
Estonian Environment Agency uses the data from EUMETSAT Meteosat satellite. Sattellite images are in local time.
NB! Fresh images appear to the web page with the delay of 25 minutes from real time.
Estonia is EUMETSAT (European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites) cooperative state from 2006 and member state from 2013. Satellite data is transferred through EUMETCast.