Meteosat 8 satellite picture from Ferdinand Valk's site at 12.00 UTC on
Wednesday 11th January
http://www.fvalk.com/images/Day_imag...8-1200-EUR.jpg

NOAA 18 VIS satellite picture from Bernard Burton's site at 13.38 UTC on
Wednesday 11th January
http://www.btinternet.com/~wokingham...1338-b-uk.html

Frontal cloud stretches from Scandinavia over the Low Countries and extreme
SE England to northern France and beyond. Showers near the west coast of
Ireland and in north and west Scotland. Large areas of sunshine in Ireland
and the Midlands, Wales and southern England.


UK min. temps on Tuesday night http://makeashorterlink.com/?K3906247C

06.00 - Ballypatrick and Castlederg 3.7°C, Tulloch Bridge 3.6°C,
Lusa/Skye 3.5°C, Copley 3.4°C, Lough Fea 3.1°C, South Uist 3.00°C,
Drumalbin 2.9°C.
09.00 - Aviemore and Aboyne 2.1°C, Loch Glascarnoch 0.9°C, Glen
Ogle -0.1°C.

06.00 - St Mawgan 9.0°C, Yeovilton 9.3°C, Leeming and St Athan 9.4°C,
St Mary's 9.8°C.


UK max. temps on Wednesday http://makeashorterlink.com/?N2B05347C

Glen Ogle 2.8°C, Aviemore 4.1°C, Eskdalemuir 5.0°C, Loch Glascarnoch and
Inverbervie 5.2°C.

Shoeburyness, Yeovilton, Shoreham and Guernsey 10.6°C, Donna Nook and
Herstmonceux 10.7°C, Coningsby 10.8°C, Church Fenton 11.0°C, Solent MRSC
11.1°C, Charterhall 13.5°C, Rosehearty 15.3°C.

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


Rainfall radar
http://www.metoffice.com/weather/eur...animation.html
Widespread showers in western and central Scotland on Wednesday afternoon
become fewer in the evening.

Rainfall totals http://makeashorterlink.com/?J2E04147C

Redesdale 11 mm, Warcop Range 11.2 mm, Loch Glascarnoch 12.0 mm, Carlisle
15.2 mm, Sennybridge 15.8 mm, Lake Vyrnwy 16.2 mm, Eskdalemuir 20.0 mm,
Keswick and Spadeadam 24.6 mm, Capel Curig 30.6 mm, Shap 34.4 mm.

Highest gusts (mph) http://makeashorterlink.com/?U2F05247C

South Uist and Edinburgh Airport 63 mph, Sule Skerry and Kirkwall 69 mph,
Stornoway 73 mph, Lerwick 85 mph.


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


Colin Youngs
Brussels

That Rosehearty figure must surely be a mistake ?? The highest
temperature here between 0600 and 1800 was only 6.4C.

Further along the Moray Firth coast it managed only 5C at Lossiemouth
and 6C at Kinloss (according to WeatherOnline) and these would be the
places more likely to benefit from a foehn effect. The most likely
explanation that I can find is that the Met Office have added a 1 to
5.3C by mistake.

Richard Slessor,
Hazlehead, Aberdeen.

Richard Slessor wrote in message
.com...
:That Rosehearty figure must surely be a mistake ?? The highest
:temperature here between 0600 and 1800 was only 6.4C.
:
:Further along the Moray Firth coast it managed only 5C at Lossiemouth
:and 6C at Kinloss (according to WeatherOnline) and these would be the
laces more likely to benefit from a foehn effect. The most likely
:explanation that I can find is that the Met Office have added a 1 to
:5.3C by mistake.

I was very dubious about this figure. I wondered if it had occurred early
in the night before the cold front passed. What about 13.5°C at
Charterhall ? Is that likely to be wrong too ?

Colin Youngs
Brussels

"Richard Slessor" wrote in message
oups.com...
That Rosehearty figure must surely be a mistake ?? The highest
temperature here between 0600 and 1800 was only 6.4C.

Further along the Moray Firth coast it managed only 5C at Lossiemouth
and 6C at Kinloss (according to WeatherOnline) and these would be the
places more likely to benefit from a foehn effect. The most likely
explanation that I can find is that the Met Office have added a 1 to
5.3C by mistake.

Richard Slessor,
Hazlehead, Aberdeen.


Looks like someone's stuck the sensor in a bucket of water for a calibration
check. Pity the MO doesn't have Rosehearty on its list of stations for
hourly obs. I imagine it would have been missing temps for a couple of hours
around lunchtime.

Richard Slessor wrote:
That Rosehearty figure must surely be a mistake ?? The highest
temperature here between 0600 and 1800 was only 6.4C.

Further along the Moray Firth coast it managed only 5C at Lossiemouth
and 6C at Kinloss (according to WeatherOnline) and these would be the
places more likely to benefit from a foehn effect. The most likely
explanation that I can find is that the Met Office have added a 1 to
5.3C by mistake.

Max daytime temp here was indeed about 5.3C, so that would fit.
--
Steve Loft, Glenlivet. 200m ASL
Weather and webcam:
http://www.livet.org.uk/weather

"Steve Loft" wrote in message
...
Richard Slessor wrote:
That Rosehearty figure must surely be a mistake ?? The highest
temperature here between 0600 and 1800 was only 6.4C.

Further along the Moray Firth coast it managed only 5C at Lossiemouth
and 6C at Kinloss (according to WeatherOnline) and these would be the
places more likely to benefit from a foehn effect. The most likely
explanation that I can find is that the Met Office have added a 1 to
5.3C by mistake.

Max daytime temp here was indeed about 5.3C, so that would fit.
--
Steve Loft, Glenlivet. 200m ASL
Weather and webcam:
http://www.livet.org.uk/weather

Rosehearty hourly max was around 7C. Charterhall was also a spurious max
caused by a maintenance visit.

Skink wrote in message ...
:Rosehearty hourly max was around 7C. Charterhall was also a spurious max
:caused by a maintenance visit.

Thanks. Sorry for misleading everybody by including those two.

Colin Youngs
Brussels