Meteosat 8 satellite picture from Ferdinand Valk's site at 12.00 UTC on
Saturday 10th December
http://www.fvalk.com/images/Day_imag...8-1200-EUR.jpg

NOAA 18 VIS satellite picture from DLR at 12.12 UTC on Saturday 10th
December
http://www.dfd.dlr.de/ftp/put/wetter...2101212.uk.jpg

Meteosat MSG-1 satellite picture from Bernard Burton's site at 12.00 UTC on
Saturday 10th December
http://www.btinternet.com/~wokingham...g-1200-uk.html

Ireland, Scotland, most of Wales and NW England are cloudy. Quite sunny in
southern England and well-broken cloud over the Midlands and NE England.
Most of Belgium is sunny but there is an area of persistent fog over the
north. Fog and low cloud over much of the Netherlands.


UK min. temps on Friday night
http://www.uni-koeln.de/math-nat-fak...europazoom.gif
or http://meteocentre.com/analyse/map_m...lang=en&map=uk Blue
figures

Scotland 5 to 11°C; Northern Isles 8 to 9°C; Western Isles and Northern
Ireland 10 to 11°C; Northern England 3 to 11°C; Midlands 1 to 7°C; East
Anglia 0 to 4°C; SE England -4 to 4°C; SW England 4 to 11°C; Wales 6 to
10°C.

09.00 - Herstmonceux -0.3°C, Odiham -0.8°C, Thorney Island -1.4°C,
Shoeburyness and Shoreham -1.6°C, Gravesend -1.7°C, Farnborough -1.8°C,
Northolt -2.2°C, Charlwood -3.4°C, Redhill -4.3°C.

06.00 - South Uist 10.4°C, Tiree 10.6°C, Ronaldsway 10.7°C, St Mary's
10.8°C, Stornoway 11.2°C, Machrihanish 11.4°C.


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

Scotland including the Northern Isles 10 to 13°C; Western Isles 11 to 12°C;
Northern England 9 to 13°C; Midlands 7 to 11°C; East Anglia 6 to 8°C; SE
England 7 to 9°C; SW England 8 to 11°C; Wales 8 to 13°C; Northern Ireland
10 to 12°C.

Jersey 3.4°C, Guernsey 5.8°C, Andrewsfield and High Wycombe 6.5°C,
Langdon Bay 6.7°C, Kenley 6.8°C, Marham 6.9°C.

Kirkwall and Boulmer 12.5°C, Leeming 12.6°C, Aboyne 12.7°C, Aberdeen and
Rhyl 12.8°C, Kinloss 12.9°C, Tain Range and Machrihanish 13.0°C,
Altnaharra 13.3°C.

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


Rainfall radar
http://www.metoffice.com/weather/eur...animation.html
Radar shows no significant rainfall on Saturday afternoon and evening.

Baltasound 5.4 mm, Lerwick 6.4 mm, Walney Island 6.6 mm, Spadeadam 7.6
mm, St Angelo 7.8 mm, Eskdalemuir and Carlisle 10.8 mm, St Bees Head 12.2
mm, Dundrennan 12.8 mm, Lusa/Skye 14.5 mm.


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


Colin Youngs
Brussels