Meteosat 8 satellite picture from Ferdinand Valk's site at 12.00 UTC on
Saturday 31st December
http://www.fvalk.com/images/Day_imag...8-1200-EUR.jpg

NOAA 18 VIS satellite picture from Bernard Burton's site at 13.49 UTC on
Saturday 31st December
http://www.btinternet.com/~wokingham...1349-b-uk.html

Meteosat MSG-1 satellite picture from Bernard Burton's site at 12.00 UTC on
Saturday 31st December
http://www.btinternet.com/~wokingham...g-1200-uk.html

Showers over Ireland and Britain - especially Scotland and SW England.


UK min. temps on Friday night http://makeashorterlink.com/?H33F1246C or
http://meteocentre.com/analyse/map_m...lang=en&map=uk Blue figures

Scotland -3 to 7°C; Northern Isles 4 to 5°C; Western Isles 0 to 7°C;
Northern England 0 to 8°C; Midlands 1 to 6°C; East Anglia 1 to 4°C;
Southern England 4 to 7°C; Wales 3 to 7°C; Northern Ireland 5 to 6°C.

06.00 - Topcliffe 0.6°C, Spadedam 0.5°C, Eskdalemuir and Dishforth
0.3°C, Redesdale 0.2°C.
09.00 - Lossiemouth and Strathallan 0.2°C, Copley -0.2°C, Tain
Range -1.5°C, Glenlivet -2.3°C, Aboyne -3.2°C, Altnaharra -3.6°C.

06.00 - St Mary's 7.3°C, St Mawgan 7.4°C, Valley 7.6°C, Ronaldsway
7.8°C, Guernsey 8.7°C.


UK max. temps on Saturday http://makeashorterlink.com/?L14F3546C or
http://meteocentre.com/analyse/map_m...lang=en&map=uk Red figures

Scotland 2 to 9°C; Northern Isles 6 to 8°C; Western Isles and SW England 6
to 9°C; Northern England and Northern Ireland 5 to 8°C; Midlands and East
Anglia 7 to 8°C; SE England 7 to 10°C; Wales 5 to 9°C.

Tain Range and Strathallan 1.9°C, Aboyne 2.0°C, Loch Glascarnoch 2.5°C,
Altnaharra 3.5°C.

Guernsey 9.1°C, Mumbles 9.2°C, Shoeburyness, Gravesend and Manston 9.3°C,
St Mary's and London MO 9.5°C, Shoreham 9.7°C, Bournemouth 9.8°C.

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


Rainfall radar
http://www.metoffice.com/weather/eur...animation.html
Widespread areas of showers and outbreaks of rain over Ireland and southern
Scotland on Saturday afternoon. Rain in Wales and NW England by early
evening. Showers in the Channel.

Redesdale 13 mm, Glasgow Bishopton 13.7 mm, Bingley and Scampton 14 mm,
Castlederg 14.3 mm, Lerwick 14.4 mm, St Angelo 14.6 mm, Shap 14.8 mm,
Albemarle 16.0 mm, Spadeadam 22.8 mm, Liscombe 25.8 mm.

Rainfall totals http://makeashorterlink.com/?S26F1646C


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


Colin Youngs
Brussels