Meteosat 8 satellite picture from Ferdinand Valk's site at 12.00 UTC on
Thursday 2nd March
http://www.fvalk.com/images/Day_imag...8-1200-EUR.jpg

Meteosat MSG-1 satellite picture from Bernard Burton's site at 12.00 UTC on
Thursday 2nd March
http://www.btinternet.com/~wokingham...g-1200-uk.html

Line of snow showers across NE Scotland. Showers also in the North Sea and
on the coast of NE England. Rather cloudy in Wales and broken convective
cloud in the southern half of Britain. Sunny in central and southern
Scotland and much of northern England. Fronts approaching SW Britain.
Variable cloud with some wintry showers over the Low Countries.


UK min. temps on Wednesday night http://makeashorterlink.com/?K47412BBC
or
http://www.uni-koeln.de/math-nat-fak...europazoom.gif

06.00 - Benson -6.9°C, Sennybridge -7.1°C, Pembrey Sands -7.2°C,
Spadeadam -7.4°C.
09.00 - Aviemore -9.6°C, Shap -9.7°C, Shawbury -10.2°C,
Glenlivet -10.7°C, Aboyne -11.8°C, Tulloch Bridge -12.2°C, Loch
Glascarnoch -14.1°C, Altnaharra -16.4°C.

06.00 - Kirkwall and Tiree -0.4°C, Guernsey -0.1°C, Valley 1.3°C,
Ronaldsway 1.7°C, St Mary's 2.2°C.


UK max. temps on Thursday http://makeashorterlink.com/?U38431BBC or
http://www.uni-koeln.de/math-nat-fak...europazoom.gif

Loch Glascarnoch -1.3°C, Altnaharra 0.0°C, Inverbervie 0.1°C, Lerwick
0.6°C, Wick 0.7°C, Kinloss 0.8°C, Aberdeen 1.0°C, Baltasound and Aboyne
1.1°C, Aviemore 1.2°C.

Glasgow Bishopton, Cardiff MO and Shoeburyness 6.4°C, Gravesend 6.5°C,
Heathrow and Guernsey 6.8°C, Charlwood 6.9°C, Great Malvern and Mumbles
7.0°C, Bournemouth 7.3°C, St Mary's 7.4°C.

http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/...yesterday.html


Rainfall radar
http://www.metoffice.com/weather/eur...animation.html

Persistent heavy snow showers across northern Scotland on Thursday afternoon
and evening. Showers near the coast of NE England move away in the evening
and showers from Wales to East Anglia also die out.

Rainfall totals http://makeashorterlink.com/?X19421BBC

Aberdeen 3 mm, Copley 3.2 mm, South Uist 3.9 mm, Altnaharra and Shawbury
4 mm, Rosehearty 4.2 mm, Crosby 4.3 mm, Stornoway 5.0 mm, Rhyl 5.6 mm,
Aultbea 9.0 mm, Lusa/Skye 10.7 mm, Hawarden 16.2 mm.


Location of some UK stations
http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/education/data/ukobs.html


Colin Youngs
Brussels