Cape Town, South Africa

High-resolution satellite images of Cape Town, South Africa.

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Storms

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Zoom Earth shows live weather satellite images updated in near real-time, and the best high-resolution aerial views of the Earth in a fast, zoomable map. Explore recent images of storms, wildfires, property and more. Previously known as Flash Earth.

Live imagery is updated every 10 minutes from NOAA GOES and JMA Himawari-8 geostationary satellites. Imagery from EUMETSAT Meteosat is updated every 15 minutes.

Daily imagery is provided by services from NASA’s GIBS, part of EOSDIS. NASA-NOAA polar-orbiting satellites Suomi-NPP and MODIS Aqua and Terra provide continuous imagery for “AM” at local 10:30am, and “PM” at local 1:30pm.

Historical imagery is sourced from Microsoft and Esri.

Storm tracks and forecast maps are created using the most recent data from NHC, JTWC, NRL and IBTrACS.

Rain and snow radar data are provided by RainViewer.

Fire spots show sources of high temperature, updated daily using data from FIRMS via GIBS.