Ivan Smiljanic

Salām, Shalom, Мир, Mir, ....
Trainer @EUMETSAT Training Team

[Ivan Smiljanic @InOrbitIvan]

A Day In The Life (of open-cell clouds).
Met-12 Cloud Type RGB, south of Africa.

[Ivan Smiljanic @InOrbitIvan]

It's Friday, I give the answer straight away - 'melting soup cube' (Ukraine/Russia border)
(#FCI True Colour RGB 2025-12-05T0620)

[Ivan Smiljanic @InOrbitIvan]

Fog soup in the east.
Btw, can you find melting soup cube in the soup?
(#MTG #FCI Night Micro RGB)

[Ivan Smiljanic @InOrbitIvan]

Had to add to more zoom-in views of this wonder of #Africa:

[Ivan Smiljanic @InOrbitIvan]

I would swear it's one of the @Philthe4cstr masterpieces.
However, this time one of the nature's own masterpiece - intertwined vegetated and arid patches around the Lake Chad.
#Copernicus #Sentinel-2 Cloud Phase RGB

[Ivan Smiljanic @InOrbitIvan]

@Djpuco Not a very typical warning for Poland in mid Nov, right?

[Ivan Smiljanic @InOrbitIvan]

@Djpuco Radial cirrus also noticeable (around 6 UTC, especially over Atlantic).
#MTG #LI AFA and #FCI IR10.5 loop

[The Resonance @Partisan_12]

“I was fired, arrested and jailed for four days in solitary confinement in a high security prison.
For what? For posting about civilians k!lled in Gaza. I am Meir Baruchin, a history and civics teacher in Tel Aviv..”

[Ivan Smiljanic @InOrbitIvan]

@SciGuySpace Sobering unfortunately in vain, as long as the lobbyist keep on pouring fancy drinks to policymakers.

[Ivan Smiljanic @InOrbitIvan]

@Djpuco Amazing. Very clear example of mportance of low Sun angle view (it appears that these waves dispensary towards mid-day).

[The Resonance @Partisan_12]

“11 days ago, we welcomed the ceasefire. But since then, 153 tons of bombs have been dropped on Gaza.... Zero is the actions taken by the European union”

🇪🇺MEP Lynn Boylan

[Ivan Smiljanic @InOrbitIvan]

#Storm #Joshua brings strong wind and a lot of rain to parts of central Europe. Looks intense indeed..
#FCI True Colour RGB (daytime) & IR10.5 (night time)

[Ivan Smiljanic @InOrbitIvan]

Btw, we discussed heavily this storm during last Satellite Application Course - aside from romance and bright reflection, this storm was associated with huge number of lightning flashes, convergence lines, moisture boundary, outflow, dust advection ...
(#FCI IR10.5 #LI AFA)

[Ivan Smiljanic @InOrbitIvan]

If you feel romantic today, you might see a heart-shaped above-anvil cirrus, atop the recent storm over KSA.
(#FCI Ture Colour and Cloud Type RGB 2025-09-14T1420)

[Ivan Smiljanic @InOrbitIvan]

10 min later - storm turns into a 'light bulb'.
Very obvious reflection from the side of the storm enlightens the near-by ground.
(#FCI Ture Colour RGB, 2025-09-14T1430) https://t.co/rmbPMJc3fe

[Ivan Smiljanic @InOrbitIvan]

And corresponding loop:

[Ivan Smiljanic @InOrbitIvan]

Red nails of semi-transparent cirrus clouds, seen this morning over South Africa by #FCI Cloud Type RGB.
Red colour is typical for thin high clouds (NIR1.38 on red beam of this RGB), and where there are reflective clouds below in combination they turn to yellow.

[Ivan Smiljanic @InOrbitIvan]

Like a marching band - low pressure systems (future #hurricanes?) running across the Atlantic this week.
It is the peak season after all.
#MTG Dust RGB 24h loop.

[Ivan Smiljanic @InOrbitIvan]

Perhaps not so unusual :) (grabbed this one just now) :

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Equidistant cirrus pattern made me think I am seeing (unusual) waves in #FCI Dust RGB?
However seems these are strange(?) equidistant airplane corridors, contrail aggregates. At least I have not seen such regular contrail collections before.

[Ivan Smiljanic @InOrbitIvan]

And associated loop: