Meteosat 8 satellite picture from Ferdinand Valk's site at 12.00 UTC on
Sunday 1st January
http://www.fvalk.com/images/Day_imag...8-1200-EUR.jpg

NOAA 18 VIS satellite picture from Bernard Burton's site at 13.39 UTC on
Sunday 1st January
http://www.btinternet.com/~wokingham...1339-b-uk.html

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

Sunny in SW Scotland and from Cumbria to the west Midlands but rather cloudy
over the rest of Britain. Low Countries largely cloudy under a small low
with some convection over Belgium.


UK min. temps on Saturday night http://makeashorterlink.com/?H2CC3156C
or http://meteocentre.com/analyse/map_m...lang=en&map=uk Blue
figures

Scotland -4 to 7°C; Northern Isles 2 to 4°C; Western Isles and Northern
England 2 to 7°C; Midlands 2 to 5°C; East Anglia 1 to 3°C; SE England 2
to 6°C; SW England 3 to 8°C; Wales 4 to 8°C; Northern Ireland 4 to 6°C.

06.00 - Aviemore 0.7°C, Aboyne and Spadeadam 0.5°C, Redesdale 0.3°C,
Eskdalemuir -0.1°C, Altnaharra -4.4°C.
09.00 - Prestwick -0.4°C, Tain Range -1.2°C, Saughall -1.3°C,
Strathallan -1.8°C, Redhill -2.4°C.

06.00 - St Athan 7.4°C, Camborne 7.6°C, Valley and St Mawgan 7.8°C, St
Mary's 8.4°C.


UK max. temps on Sunday http://makeashorterlink.com/?T59C1256C or
http://meteocentre.com/analyse/map_m...lang=en&map=uk Red figures

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

Baltasound 2.8°C, Altnaharra 3.5°C, Warcop Range 4.1°C, Loch Glascarnoch
and Aviemore 4.3°C, Lerwick 4.4°C.

Aultbea and Bournemouth 9.3°C, Milford Haven, Pembrey Sands and Chivenor
9.4°C, Ronaldsway 9.7°C, Cardiff MO and St Mary's 10.0°C, Machrihanish
10.1°C.

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


Rainfall radar
http://www.metoffice.com/weather/eur...animation.html
Showers mostly near the west coast and in eastern England on Sunday
afternoon and evening.

Machrihanish 9.2 mm, Lake Vyrnwy 9.8 mm, Herstmonceux 10.8 mm,
Sennybridge and Plymouth 11.6 mm, Trawsgoed 13.0 mm, Ronaldsway 19.3 mm,
Cardinham 21.8 mm, Capel Curig 28.2 mm.

Rainfall totals http://makeashorterlink.com/?Y2EC1256C


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


Colin Youngs
Brussels