A Year of Weather 2020

Our annual Year of Weather videos are created thanks to the international cooperation with the China Meteorological Administration (CMA), the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). Merging their data with ours, we are able to get comprehensive views of the entire planet.

This animation shows the different weather patterns across the globe in 2020 as captured from space, with major storms labelled from light yellow to red depending on their intensity. The most active basin of the year was the North Atlantic, counting 30 named storms.

The ultra-high resolution (8K) visualisation has been produced by EUMETSAT's data visualisation team and is composed of a satellite infrared data layer, provided by Météo-France's Centre de Météorologie Spatiale, superimposed over NASA's 'Blue Marble Next Generation' ground maps, which change with the seasons.

Please note: The flickering in the video is due to the combination of data from the geostationary satellites of EUMETSAT, NOAA, the CMA and JMA, combined with data from EUMETSAT's polar-orbiting Metop satellites.