Meteosat 8 satellite picture from F. Valk's site at 12.00 UTC on Monday 5th
December
http://www.fvalk.com/images/Day_imag...8-1200-EUR.jpg

NOAA 18 VIS satellite picture from Bernard Burton's site at 13.12 UTC on
Monday 5th December
http://www.btinternet.com/~wokingham...1312-b-uk.html

Meteosat MSG-1 satellite picture from Bernard Burton's site at 12.00 UTC on
Monday 5th December
http://www.btinternet.com/~wokingham...g-1200-uk.html
NOAA 18 VIS satellite picture from Dundee at UTC on Monday 5th December

Large amounts of cloud over Britain and the Low Countries. Fairly bright
in eastern England. Quite sunny in much of Ireland. Convective cloud
over eastern Scotland and in a band from the Western Isles to the Midlands.
Showers also over the North Sea and the west of the Netherlands.


UK min. temps on Sunday night
http://www.uni-koeln.de/math-nat-fak...europazoom.gif

Scotland and Northern England 1 to 8°C; Northern Isles 6 to 7°C; Western
Isles and Wales 4 to 8°C; Midlands -1 to 6°C; East Anglia and SE England 0
to 5°C; SW England 2 to 7°C; Northern Ireland 4 to 6°C.

06.00 - Aberdeen and Eskdalemuir 1.0°C, Redesdale 0.7°C, Topcliffe
0.5°C, Redhill -0.3°C.
09.00 - Shap and Wattisham 0.4°C, Bournemouth -0.2°C, Coltishall -0.3°C,
Coningsby -0.6°C, Saughall -0.8°C.

06.00 - Tiree 6.8°C, Machrihanish 7.6°C, Valley 7.8°C, St Mary's 7.9°C,
Ronaldsway 8.0°C.


UK max. temps on Monday
http://www.uni-koeln.de/math-nat-fak...europazoom.gif

Scotland 4 to 8°C; Northern Isles and East Anglia 7 to 8°C; Western Isles,
SW England and Wales 6 to 9°C; Northern England 5 to 9°C; Midlands and SE
England 7 to 9°C; Northern Ireland 5 to 8°C.

Glen Ogle 2.9°C, Drumalbin 4.2°C, Aviemore 4.6°C, Eskdalemuir 4.9°C.

Chivenor, Jersey and London MO 9.2°C, Bridlington and Brize Norton 9.3°C,
Barra and St Catherine's Point 9.4°C, Guernsey 9.5°C, St Mary's 9.7°C,
Culdrose 9.8°C.

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


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

Once again showers circle round the old low pressure area on Monday
afternoon and evening. Areas of merging showers and outbreaks of rain over
eastern Scotland and from the north of Ireland through NW England to the
Midlands.

Belfast Aldergrove and Ballykelly 12 mm, Machrihanish 12.4 mm, Rhyl 13.0
mm, Sennybridge 13.2 mm, Port Ellen on Islay 14.3 mm, Woodford 15.6 mm,
Leek 16.9 mm, Portglenone 20.0 mm, Ballycastle 20 mm, At Angelo 21.0 mm,
Capel Curig 25.6 mm, Ballypatrick 29.8 mm.


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


Colin Youngs
Brussels