WEATHER · SATELLITE
Satellite
Satellite cloud imagery — the cloud swirl from the TV forecast, seen from orbit. A dated daily true-colour global base with live GOES-East and GOES-West GeoColor loops animating on top in ~10-minute frames.
What it shows
The satellite layer is the cloud imagery itself — the swirl of weather systems you know from the TV forecast, seen from orbit. A daily true-colour global base (from NASA’s VIIRS instrument, labelled with its date) gives an always-present floor, and live GOES-East and GOES-West GeoColor loops animate on top of it: true-colour cloud tops by day, infrared-blended cloud at night.
How to read it
Press play to watch the GeoColor frames step forward about every ten minutes, so cyclones spin, fronts sweep and storm anvils blow out in near real time. The live loops cover the Americas and the Atlantic and Pacific from the two GOES satellites; over Europe, Africa, Asia and Australia you see the dated daily base rather than a live loop, so those regions are a still image, not a broken one.
SEE IT LIVE
Open the full weather console with satellite on, then stack other overlays and scrub the forecast.