Category: News

Good news – the new ASMET website is now live!

We’re pleased to share that the new ASMET site is officially online. We hope the redesign makes it easier for you to find training opportunities and learning resources. Here’s what you can explore right away: Check out the Training Calendar for a full overview of upcoming satellite training courses, workshops and weather briefings across Africa. […]

Training event on EUMETSAT data access held in Casablanca

EUMETSAT’s new generation satellite products are providing a large amount of new, valuable satellite data for operational users in Europe, Africa, and the Middle East. Now Meteosat Third Generation (MTG) products are being operational, it is important to make these products available for forecasters.  To facilitate this, the Direction General de la Meteorologie (DGM) in […]

African Weather Briefing

Every Quarter, the South African Weather Service, in collaboration with EUMETSAT organises an African Weather Briefing. It is open to everyone to discuss interesting weather events using various satellite products and NWP models. In the first briefing of this year, we looked at the identification of potential turbulence areas using various satellite products. Listen to […]

RA-I MTG Satellite Imagery Interpretation Course 2025

The online course on MTG Satellite Imagery Interpretation will take place 17 March-4 April 2025. It is offered in English language, by the ASMET instructors from IMTR Kenya, SAWS South Africa and EUMETSAT. This course helps you to improve skills in using MTG satellite imagery for identifying various weather and surface features in Africa. The […]

RA-I Interpretation de l’imagerie satellitaire MTG

Le cours en ligne sur l’interprétation de l’imagerie satellitaire MTG se déroulera du 31 mars au 18 avril 2025 en français par des instructeurs ASMET de la DGM Maroc, de l’EAMAC Niger et  d’EUMETSAT. Ce cours d’interprétation d’images satellites MTG vous permettra d’améliorer vos compétences en matière d’accès et d’utilisation de la nouvelle génération, l’imagerie […]

Exciting changes coming to ASMET!

We’re thrilled to announce that ASMET is undergoing a redesign to bring you an improved experience on this website. Our goal is to make it easier for you to access the latest news, training and learning resources to support your work as a forecaster. During this time, you may notice changes to our website and […]

The African Weather Online Briefing series – October session recording and slides available

The African Weather Briefing, proudly hosted by the Kenya Meteorological Department/Institute for Meteorological Training and Research (KMD/IMTR), was held  October 30, 2024, at 09:00 UTC. The presenter was Mirriam Mwende, who presented an intense precipitation case from Kenya. The audience appreciated this presentation. The presentation playback as well as the slides are available. Link to […]

The African Weather Online Briefing series continues in September – Registrations open

We invite you to the next edition of the African Weather Briefing, proudly hosted by the South African Weather Service. 🗓 Date: September 26, 2024 ⏰ Time: 09:00 UTC 🌍 Online (Zoom/Webinar platform) During this session, we will be analysing the current weather situation across the continent, using satellite images and numerical weather prediction data. […]

Welcoming the ASMET team at EUMETSAT

ASMET welcome to EUMETSAT The ASMET team is back together for their yearly working meeting. Hosted by EUMETSAT and supported by our partners from the COMET Program(UCAS, USA), the meeting brings together the training partners from the four VLab Centres of Excellence in Africa, representing the African South African Weather Service (Pretoria), the Institute for […]