Why are some images covered in speckles?
During February/March, solar eclipse conditions interfers with the satellites broadcasts creating these noisy speckles. This normally only occurs at around solar noon (12 GMT) for Meteosat. There is nothing that we can do to prevent this! For more details see the Meteosat anomalies document at Eumetsat. • Why are some images missing? There are times when there are glitches in our system, but more likely explanations are that Eumetsat had a problem receiving or disseminating the image, or that the image was considered too noisy due to interference, possibly caused by eclipse conditions, see above. Check the Eumetsat Notifications and Service Newsservice news and administration message. Then check our reception log and our list of images which passed the first stage of processing. –> If there is still an unexplained missing image then please contact us! • Why are the images not up-to-date? First, please try to reload or refresh the web page in your web browser and check the date near th