Laura blows powerful gusts over Western Europe

Sentinel-3 SLSTR RBT acquired on 07 May 2019 from 11:04:04 to 11:10:04 UTC and from 11:43:36 to 11:49:36 UTC
Sentinel-5P TROPOMI CLOUD acquired on 07 May 2019 from 13:28:14 to 13:33:14 UTC
Sentinel-3 SLSTR RBT acquired on 07 May 2019 from 21:25:32 to 21:31:32 UTC and from 22:26:59 to 23:12:31 UTC
Sentinel-3 SLSTR RBT acquired on 08 May 2019 from 10:37:53 to 10:43:53 and from 11:17:26 to 11:23:26 UTC
Author(s): Sentinel Vision team, VisioTerra, France - svp@visioterra.fr
Keyword(s): Atmosphere, wind, storm, Portugal, Spain, France, Germany
Fig. 1 - S3 SLSTR (07.05.2019) - Thermal band with colour map - Storm Laura reached the European coasts on 07.05.2019.
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Fig. 2 - S5P TROPOMI (07.05.2019) - cloud cover fraction with colour map - At ground level, it blew as strong as 170 km/h, in SW of France.
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Fig. 3 - S3 SLSTR (07.05.2019) - Gusts reached 245 km/h on the 3845 m-high Aiguille du Midi, beating the previous record by 20 km/h.
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Fig. 4 - S3 SLSTR (08.05.2019) - Thermal band with colour map - It then dissipated quickly inland.
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Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2024, processed by VisioTerra.
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