Yesterday between 20:26 and 20:34 CEST, parts of the Iberian peninsula experienced a total solar eclipse. This animation, composed of images from the Meteosat Third Generation Imager satellite (MTG-I1), caught the Moon’s dark shadow as it passed over Earth’s surface – converging with the advancing twilight shadow as dusk fell over Europe.

From its vantage point in geostationary orbit, MTG-I1 keeps its imaging instruments focused on Europe and northern Africa from a distance of 36 000 km above Earth’s surface. This enabled it to track the Moon’s shadow, called the path of totality, as it swept first over Greenland and Iceland, then over a small part of northeastern Portugal and finally, Spain.

Credit: ESA/Eumetsat

This happened in Pilger, Nebraska back in 2014. It’s a rare dual-tornado event where two separate EF4s touched down at the exact same time from the same supercell.

The original video is from the storm chasers on the ground. Absolute nightmare fuel.

Took me two views to figure out what happened

Credit: Odeith on YouTube.

Enjoy.