Overview
- EUMETSAT declared Meteosat-13 operational on October 13, 2026 and began supplying its Infra‑Sounder measurements to member-state weather services.
- The satellite’s Infra‑Sounder measures temperature and humidity in nearly 2,000 infrared channels to produce vertical profiles that reveal atmospheric instability before clouds appear.
- Meteosat-13 images Europe from geostationary orbit every 30 minutes and, when combined with other MTG instruments, creates a 4D picture that shows evolving winds, lightning and storm structure.
- EUMETSAT and partners are training AI systems to ingest the new data and produce very-short-term forecasting updates in about eleven minutes to help emergency services gain earlier lead time for evacuations.
- Beyond storms, the satellite can track ozone, dust, volcanic ash and wildfire smoke columns, which improves monitoring of air quality and how particles may seed or change storm development.