Meteosat 8 satellite picture from Ferdinand Valk's site at 12.00 UTC on
Saturday 17th December
http://www.fvalk.com/images/Day_imag...8-1200-EUR.jpg

NOAA 18 VIS satellite picture from Bernard Burton's site at 12.51 UTC on
Saturday 17th December
http://www.btinternet.com/~wokingham...1251-b-uk.html

Meteosat MSG-1 satellite picture from Bernard Burton's site at 12.00 UTC on
Saturday 17th December
http://www.btinternet.com/~wokingham...g-1200-uk.html

Showers streaming down the North Sea and into the Low Countries. Showers
also affect the east coast of England. Some cloud in northern Scotland and
SW Wales and SW England but most of Britain is sunny.


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 -4 to 4°C; Northern Isles -2 to 0°C; Western Isles 1 to 3°C;
Northern England -6 to 4°C; Midlands -3 to 2°C; East Anglia -1 to 1°C; SE
England -2 to 2°C; SW England 0 to 8°C; Wales 0 to 5°C; Northern Ireland
2 to 5°C.

09.00 - Glen Ogle -3.5°C, Boltshope Park -3.8°C, Eskdalemuir -4.3°C,
Spadeadam -4.5°C, Warcop Range -6.3°C.

06.00 - Culdrose and Guernsey 6.8°C, St Mawgan 6.9°C, Camborne 7.7°C,
St Mary's 9.4°C.


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

Scotland and Northern England 0 to 6°C; Northern Isles 1 to 3°C; Western
Isles 3 to 6°C; Midlands and East Anglia 2 to 5°C; SE England 2 to 6°C;
SW England 5 to 9°C; Wales 3 to 7°C; Northern Ireland 4 to 7°C.

Glen Ogle -2.0°C, Warcop Range -0.3°C, Loch Glascarnoch -0.2°C, Spadeadam
0.3°C, Inverbervie 0.4°C, Copley 0.8°C.

Camborne 8.5°C, Culdrose 8.6°C, St Mawgan 8.8°C, St Mary's 10.0°C.

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


Rainfall radar
http://www.metoffice.com/weather/eur...animation.html
Showers moving down the North Sea affect NE Scotland and the east coast of
England on Saturday afternoon and evening. Some showers also in west Wales
and SW England.

Rosehearty and Aberdaron 2.2 mm, Lusa/Skye 2.4 mm, Valley 2.6 mm, Pembrey
Sands 4.2 mm, Aberporth 4.3 mm, Weybourne 9.2 mm, Coltishall 10.7 mm.


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


Colin Youngs
Brussels