New Year’s Eve Saturday 31st December 2016


Meteosat MSG satellite picture from Ferdinand Valk’s site at 12.00 UTC http://www.fvalk.com/images/Day_image/MSG-1200-EUR.jpg

Meteosat MSG-3 satellite picture from Bernard Burton’s site at 12.00 UTC http://www.woksat.info/etcyl31m/yl31-msg-1200-uk.html

NOAA 19 satellite picture from Bernard Burton’s site at 13.44 UTC http://www.woksat.info/etcyl31/yl31-1344-b-uk.html


UK min. temps on Friday night http://tinyurl.com/bas2wpv

Odiham and Rothamsted Park 1.1°C, Langdon Bay 0.6°C, Coningsby 0.4°C, Middle Wallop 0.0°C, Shobdon and Hereford (Credenhill) -0.4°C, Charlwood and Manston -0.5°C, Farnborough -1.5°C.

Machrihanish and Edinburgh (Gogarbank) 10.9°C, Tiree 11.0°C, Aberdeen (Dyce) 11.2°C, Aboyne 12.0°C.


UK max. temps on Saturday http://tinyurl.com/b68do2b

Jersey Airport 5.3°C, St Helier (Jersey) 5.7°C, Guernsey Airport 6.3°C, Lerwick and Langdon Bay 6.6°C, Kenley 6.7°C.

Thomastown (NI), West Freugh, Machrihanish, Leeming, Topcliffe, Linton-on-Ouse and Trawsgoed 11.4°C, Lossiemouth 11.7°C, Kinloss 11.9°C, Aboyne 13.1°C, Aberdeen (Dyce) 13.5°C.

OGIMET summary http://tinyurl.com/z4pydvb


Rainfall radar http://www.weathercast. co.uk/radar/united-kingdom.html or http://nl.meteox.com/nl-nl?fc=0&imag...ropa24uurwsg84

UK rainfall totals in 24 hours to 18.00 UTC on Saturday http://tinyurl.com/ahsgjwh

Tain Range 11 mm, Lerwick and South Uist 13 mm, Wick 14 mm, Aviemore 16 mm, Kinloss 17 mm, Kirkwall 21 mm, Tulloch Bridge 26 mm, Altnaharra 28 mm, Aultbea 44 mm, Lusa (Skye) 45 mm, Loch Glascarnoch 58 mm.


Colin Youngs
Brussels