I wrote last night on this but it became submerged in a mass of other
postings, and produced not a single reaction

If we are to lose Meteosat images that will be a huge disappointment to
many.

Would it be possible for members of uk.sci.weather as a bona fide
science group to club together and get a licence for Meteosat Second
Generation images? I seem to recall that the licence fee for an
academic body is around 10,000 euros per year. Divide that by say 200
subscribers and it works out at £30 each. Some password system, or
e-mail list to subscribers, would ensure that the satellite images
would only be available to those who have paid.

This would all take a lot of sorting out, but I for one would severely
miss the satpics (from Meteosat 7) that we get at present. The
financial aspects of administering such a system would be daunting, but
not impossible.

Bernard might have some comments on this.

Jack