Meteosat 8 satellite picture from Ferdinand Valk's site at 12.00 UTC on
Sunday 15th January
http://www.fvalk.com/images/Day_imag...8-1200-EUR.jpg

NOAA 18 VIS satellite pictures from Bernard Burton's site at 12.57 UTC on
Sunday 15th January
http://www.btinternet.com/~wokingham...1257-c-uk.html

Meteosat MSG-1 satellite picture from Bernard Burton's site at 12.00 UTC on
Sunday 15th January
http://www.btinternet.com/~wokingham...g-1200-uk.html

Frontal cloud over western Britain and the sea to the west. Fairly
extensive but more broken cloud over the rest of Britain with substantial
breaks over northern England. Sunny over the Low Countries but low cloud
over the south of the Belgian Ardennes.


UK min. temps on Saturday night http://makeashorterlink.com/?Q3A14297C
or
http://www.uni-koeln.de/math-nat-fak...europazoom.gif

06.00 - Aviemore -1.3°C, Topcliffe -1.4°C, Lossiemouth -1.8°C.
09.00 - Copley -1.6°C, Strathallan -1.8°C, Leuchars and Hereford -2.1°C,
Redesdale -3.1°C, Aboyne -3.6°C, Kinloss -3.8°C.

06.00 - Guernsey 6.8°C, Solent MRSC 6.9°C, Ronaldsway 7.0°C, Culdrose
and Plymouth 7.1°C, St Mary's 9.0°C.


UK max. temps on Sunday http://makeashorterlink.com/?Q3B11297C or
http://www.uni-koeln.de/math-nat-fak...europazoom.gif

Glen Ogle 1.8°C, Copley 4.9°C, Eskdalemuir and Redesdale 5.1°C, Tulloch
Bridge and Drumalbin 5.7°C.

Charlwood 9.9°C, St Angelo, Heathrow and Northolt 10.1°C, Gravesend
10.2°C, Aultbea 10.3°C, London MO 10.4°C, St Mary's 11.2°C.

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


Rainfall radar
http://www.metoffice.com/weather/eur...animation.html
Outbreaks of rain in Ireland and western and northern Britain on Sunday
afternoon and evening - affecting Wales, NW England and southern Scotland in
particular.

Rainfall totals http://makeashorterlink.com/?F2C15297C

Port Ellen on Islay 6 mm, Barra 6.6 mm, St Mary's 7 mm, Machrihanish 8.6
mm, Camborne 9.1 mm, South Uist 10.9 mm, Tiree 12.1 mm, Cardinham 16.6
mm.


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


Colin Youngs
Brussels

Interesting rainfall figures! I measured 52.6mm here on Skye from midnight
last night to 23.10. The station is situated to the NW of the Cuillin Range
which may well be responsible for what seems to be very localised rainfall
figures for today.
Alan
www.carbostweather.co.uk

In uk.sci.weather on Sun, 15 Jan 2006 at 23:23:29, Alan wrote :
Interesting rainfall figures! I measured 52.6mm here on Skye from midnight
last night to 23.10. The station is situated to the NW of the Cuillin Range
which may well be responsible for what seems to be very localised rainfall
figures for today.
Alan

Sod-all rain in southern England though.
--
Paul Hyett, Cheltenham