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

Meteosat MSG-2 satellite picture from Bernard Burton's site at 12.00
UTC on Thursday 8th January
http://www.woksat.info/etcra08m/ra08-msg-1200-uk.html

NOAA 18 satellite picture from Bernard Burton's site at 12.52 UTC on
Thursday 8th January
http://www.woksat.info/etcra08/ra08-1252-b-uk.html

Areas of cloud over the British Isles: sunny in eastern and central
Ireland, much of Wales, NE Scotland, NE England and parts of central
southern England. Fog and low cloud over the western half of
Belgium.


UK min. temps on Wednesday night http://tinyurl.com/7shuo6

Ballykelly, Dunkeswell and Liscombe -1.3°C, Glenanne -1.7°C, Filton
-1.8°C, Cardinham -1.9°C, St Athan -2.4°C, Aboyne and Culdrose
-4.2°C, Pembrey Sands -6.2°C.

Lerwick 6.3°C, Lusa (Skye) 6.5°C, Fair Isle 6.6°C, Aultbea 6.8°C,
South Uist 7.5°C.


UK max. temps on Thursday http://tinyurl.com/8yvfk5

Wattisham 0.7°C, Shoeburyness 0.9°C, Glenanne 1.1°C, Andrewsfield
1.2°C, Lough Fea 1.4°C.

Altnaharra, Rhyl and Trawsgoed 8.2°C, Lerwick, Kirkwall and Aultbea
8.3°C, Fair Isle 8.4°C, Stornoway 8.8°C, South Uist 8.9°C,
Baltasound 9.2°C.

OGIMET summary http://tinyurl.com/99vk56

Rainfall radar http://www.meteox.com/h.aspx?r=&soort=loop24uur&URL
or http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/uk/radar/

Little of significance on the rainfall radar over the British Isles on
Thursday.

Rainfall totals in 24 hours ending 18.00 UTC on Thursday
http://tinyurl.com/7jjgjx

Shap, Nottingham Watnall and Coleshill 0.8 mm, Lerwick, St Bees Head
and Woodford 1 mm, Baltasound and Carlisle 2 mm, Warcop Range 5 mm,
Spadeadam 6 mm.


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


Colin Youngs
Brussels