An analysis of new opportunities for operational meteorology in Basque Country based on MTG products and services

New products are expected to be available for the meteorological community, as a consequence of the inclusion of full set of improvements and new capabilities in Metosat Third Generation (MTG). Among others, as it is well known, better spatial, temporal and radiometric resolutions, lightning image data and so on. In this paper, a preliminary analysis of MTG products and services is carried out, considering new opportunities for operational meteorology at local level, and particularly for a regional meteorology service such as the Basque Meteorology Agency (Euskalmet). In this work, a preliminary analysis about new horizons that MTG will offer to us is presented. Focusing on usability and those aspects more relevant, from our perspective, in the side of operational meteorology services at a regional-local level. We have summarized how MTG new products and capabilities could affect actual processes and operations in the short and mid-term future, focusing on different operational tasks that today are fully or partially based on MSG, as severe weather surveillance and monitoring, decision making support systems, numerical weather prediction, short term forecast and nowcasting, analysis tools, climatology and other fields that could be benefit directly or indirectly from the operational use of MTG.