What is nowcasting?

Donny Aminou, ESA MTG Payload Manager, explains the concept of ‘nowcasting’ and its importance for weather forecasts. Nowcasting relates to the monitoring and prediction, in quasi real time, of rapidly evolving, and potentially damaging, weather phenomena such as severe thunderstorms. Earlier detection of such phenomena will increase the reaction time for issuing severe weather warnings and implementing the necessary measures to avoid potentially catastrophic impacts.