Time for latest satellite image not accurate
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This may be a minor point, but it bugs me. In the desktop version, when you first display the satellite view, the time slider is all the way to the right. It generally says something like "16:44 - 0 min ago".
However that is not the image from 0 minutes ago. If you back up in time, that same image is displayed until you get to around 20 minutes ago. If you continue to back up, to (say) 25 minutes ago, you get a new image. So the displayed image was taken 20 minutes ago, not 0 minutes ago.
I don't fault you for not having an image from 1 or 2 minutes ago. The weather service takes a while to generate these, and then you need to process them. However, I wish you would just be honest and when the slider is to the right, say "20 minutes ago", which is when the image is really from.
Note that this is in the US using EUMETSAT. Maybe it is different in other parts of the world.
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@btschumy The cause of this is the fact, that satellite takes the image of earth for 15 minutes, video about it here:
So the last image of this is really the most recent one.
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I agree the last image is the most recent. The problem is you imply that is the image from "now" when in reality it is the image from 20 or so minutes ago. You obviously know when the image was captured because you don't show the previous image until you have backed up for 20 minutes.
Just show the correct time the image is from.
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