Europe's latest weather eye set for launch

It's hard to overstate the importance of a weather forecast.

To most of us, most of the time, it's just a bit of information that influences which piece of clothing we grab as we leave the house. But every day, all over the world, weather forecasts will also be driving much more significant decision-making.
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Some of these decisions will have a lot of money attached to them, like altering the routes of container ships and airliners to take advantage of favourable winds; or changing the volumes of certain produce despatched to supermarket stores because consumer purchases are influenced by temperature.
And then there will be what are literally life or death decisions, such as choosing not to take a particular journey because there's a violent storm coming.
All depend on solid meteorological data and the skill of the people who interpret it to provide our forecasts.

In Europe, this is a really big year for our weather agencies because they get two new satellites that will be absolutely crucial to their work.

One is another polar-orbiting spacecraft called Metop-B, due for launch in May (see previous posting). The other is the latest model in the long-running Meteosat series, which will sit in a "stationary" position 36,000km (22,369 miles) above the equator.

The Meteosats have been providing data since the late 1970s and we are now on the "second generation" (MSG) of spacecraft that were introduced in 2002 to substantially increase the flow and quality of information coming from orbit.

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