Meteosat 8 satellite picture from Ferdinand Valk's site at 12.00 UTC on
Friday 13th January
http://www.fvalk.com/images/Day_imag...8-1200-EUR.jpg

NOAA 18 VIS satellite pictures from Bernard Burton's site at 13.17 UTC on
Friday 13th January
http://www.btinternet.com/~wokingham...1317-b-uk.html

Meteosat MSG-1 satellite picture from Bernard Burton's site at 12.00 UTC on
Friday 13th January
http://www.btinternet.com/~wokingham...g-1200-uk.html

Frontal cloud over much of Britain. Areas of low cloud over SE England
extend over the North Sea and western Belgium and the Dutch coast. Sunny
in most of the Netherlands and the centre of Belgium.


UK min. temps on Thursday night http://makeashorterlink.com/?I1343577C
or
http://www.uni-koeln.de/math-nat-fak...europazoom.gif

06.00 - Coltishall 2.7°C, Wattisham 2.6°C, Little Rissington 2.5°C,
Marham 2.3°C.
09.00 - Donna Nook 2.6°C, Scampton 2.5°C, Copley, Coningsby and
Weybourne 2.3°C, Fylingdales and Cranwell 2.1°C, Waddington 1.7°C.

06.00 - St Mawgan and Culdrose 9.3°C, Ronaldsway and Camborne 9.5°C,
Machrihanish 9.7°C, St Mary's 10.6°C.


UK max. temps on Friday http://makeashorterlink.com/?X4445177C or
http://www.uni-koeln.de/math-nat-fak...europazoom.gif

Langdon Bay 4.7°C, Manston 5.4°C, Wattisham 5.5°C, Copley 5.6°C, Glen
Ogle 5.8°C, Leek and Coltishall 5.9°C.

Castlederg 11.2°C, Lusa/Skye, Chivenor and St Mary's 11.3°C, Altnaharra
11.5°C, St Angelo and Kinloss 11.6°C, Ballykelly and Aultbea 12.2°C.

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


Rainfall radar
http://www.metoffice.com/weather/eur...animation.html
Areas of rain chiefly over Scotland and SW Britain on Friday afternoon
develop into a more general rain area over western Britain by mid-evening.

Rainfall totals - Fair Isle and Stornoway 10 mm, South Uist 12.1 mm,
Port Ellen on Islay 13.8 mm, Lough Fea 15.8 mm, Glenanne 17.0 mm,
Lusa/Skye 18.9 mm, Glasgow Bishopton 19.4 mm, Tulloch Bridge 26.2 mm.

Peak gusts (mph) http://makeashorterlink.com/?J5541377C

Lerwick, Aviemore and Peterhead 54 mph, Barra 55 mph, Stornoway, South
Uist and Benbecula 57 mph.


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


Colin Youngs
Brussels