Africa 24 Hour Satellite Weather | April 03, 2026 #shorts

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24-hour satellite weather timelapse from EUMETSAT's Meteosat Second Generation (MSG) satellite using the Spinning Enhanced Visible and InfraRed Imager (SEVIRI) IR 10.8 µm channel. Data accessed on April 03, 2026 via the EUMETSAT Data Access Client (eumdac).

🛰️ SATELLITE & INSTRUMENT
• Meteosat-10 at 0°E: Europe, Africa, Middle East (96 scans/day, every 15 min)
• Meteosat-9 at 45.5°E (IODC): Indian Ocean, East Africa, India, Arabian Peninsula
• SEVIRI: 12 spectral channels (3 visible, 1 HRV, 8 infrared/water vapor)
• IR 10.8 µm channel: brightness temperature, 3 km nadir resolution

🌍 TERRAIN & GEOGRAPHY
Each frame rendered over NOAA's ETOPO 2022 global relief model (15 arc-second) with multi-directional hillshade, emboss relief, coastal drop-shadows, and hypsometric tinting. Country borders with ocean-clipped coastlines.

🌡️ LIVE WEATHER OVERLAYS
Hourly NOAA NCEI ISD observations for major cities: color-coded temperatures, wind speed & direction arrows, and precipitation amounts rendered per frame.

📊 DATA & PROCESSING
• Satellite: Meteosat MSG (EUMETSAT) — accessed April 03, 2026
• Instrument: SEVIRI (Spinning Enhanced Visible and InfraRed Imager)
• Channel: IR 10.8 µm (brightness temperature)
• Data: Level 1.5 Native format via eumdac API
• Background: ETOPO 2022 with hillshade & emboss
• Weather: NCEI ISD hourly stations
• Pipeline: Python • satpy • OpenCV • Cartopy • Matplotlib

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📍 Region covered in this video:
Countries: Portugal, Greece, Turkey, Egypt, Nigeria, Kenya, South Africa, Ethiopia, Ghana, Senegal, Tanzania, Morocco, Tunisia, Algeria, Libya, Sudan, Angola, Mozambique, Cameroon, Côte d'Ivoire, DR Congo, Uganda, Saudi Arabia, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Iraq, Iran, Kuwait, Qatar, Madagascar
Featured cities: Lisbon, Athens, Ankara, Cairo, Alexandria, Lagos, Abuja, Nairobi, Johannesburg, Cape Town, Addis Ababa, Accra, Dakar, Dar es Salaam, Casablanca and 20 more
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