It now provides some of its data online e.g. satellite photos, synoptic maps, etc. A new 'About The Weather' section provides a large number of information pages for students and teachers. Meteorology Guide Text and attractive diagrams showing clouds, air masses and fronts, hurricanes, El Nino, the water cycle, etc. Useful for research homeworks and revision. Infra red images are useful 24 hours a day whilst visible images only work during the daylight hours.
Most images are from geostationary satellites which show a fixed view of one area of the globe.
Others are from polar orbiting satellites which move around the earth and show many different views. Combine it with the synoptic chart below. This is an excellent site if you are not sure what images you want. The images above are all from this site. This shows not the clouds but where the actual rain was falling.