Meteosat 8 satellite picture from F. Valk's site at 12.00 UTC on Friday 7
January
http://www.fvalk.com/images/Day_imag...7-1200-eur.jpg

NOAA 16 VIS satellite picture from Bernard Burton's site at 14.42 UTC on
Friday 7 January
http://www.btinternet.com/~wokingham...1442-b-uk.html

NOAA 17 VIS satellite picture from Dundee at 12.10 UTC on Friday 7 January
http://makeashorterlink.com/?U2BF51F2A

NOAA 17 VIS satellite picture from DLR at 12.05 UTC on Friday 7 January
http://www.dfd.dlr.de/ftp/put/wetter...1071205.uk.jpg

British Isles mostly cloudy except for brighter areas in southern England.
Low Countries also mostly cloudy.


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

Scotland 6 to 11°C; Northern Isles 6 to 8°C; Western Isles 7 to 10°C;
Northern Ireland, Northern England and Midlands 9 to 11°C; Wales and East
Anglia 8 to 10°C; Southern England 8 to 11°C.

Aultbea, Lusa/Skye, Copley and Lake Vyrnwy 7.6°C, Kinloss 7.5°C,
Lossiemouth 7.3°C, Stornoway 7.1°C, Altnaharra 6.9°C, Wick 6.6°C,
Lerwick 6.3°C, Loch Glascarnoch 5.7°C.

Leuchars and Leeming 10.7°C, Yeovilton 10.8°C, Boulmer 11.0°C, Aberdeen
11.5°C, Machrihanish 11.6°C.


UK max. temps on Friday
http://www.uni-koeln.de/math-nat-fak...europazoom.gif

Scotland 8 to 13°C; Northern Isles 7 to 9°C; Western Isles 8 to 11°C;
Northern and SE England 10 to 15°C; Midlands 12 to 15°C; East Anglia 13 to
14°C; SW England 11 to 14°C; Northern Ireland and Wales 10 to 13°C.

Lerwick 7.4°C, Wick 8.0°C, Stornoway 8.2°C, Aviemore 8.5°C, South Uist
9.6°C, Kinloss 9.9°C.

Boulmer and Brize Norton 13.8°C, Church Fenton and Benson 13.9°C,
Gravesend 14.0°C, Heathrow 14.4°C, Bridlington, Northolt and London MO
14.5°C, Coningsby 15.1°C.


Rainfall radar http://www.westwind.ch/w_0rad.php United Kingdom -30h ANIM
Rainfall radar stills http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/live/brradar.shtml

Rain in Scotland and in NW England and Wales on Thursday night. Outbreaks
of rain in Ireland as well - especially the south and west. Widespread
rain reaches Ireland, Wales, northern England and southern Scotland during
Friday morning and continues through the afternoon and evening.

Bishopton 25 mm, Warcop Range 27 mm, Lusa/Skye 30 mm, Carlisle 34 mm,
Tulloch Bridge 36 mm, Lake Vyrnwy 37 mm, Keswick 42 mm, Spadeadam 43 mm,
Eskdalemuir 52 mm, Loch Glascarnoch 58 mm, Shap 112 mm, Capel Curig 134
mm !!


Strongest gusts from WeatherOnline - Ronaldsway and Moel-y-Crio 52 kn,
Bingley and Boscombe Down 53 kn, Mumbles 55 kn, Redesdale 57 kn, Barra
and Boulmer 59 kn, Loftus 64 kn.


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


Colin Youngs
Brussels

In uk.sci.weather on Sat, 8 Jan 2005 at 00:29:39, Colin Youngs wrote :

Bishopton 25 mm, Warcop Range 27 mm, Lusa/Skye 30 mm, Carlisle 34 mm,
Tulloch Bridge 36 mm, Lake Vyrnwy 37 mm, Keswick 42 mm, Spadeadam 43 mm,
Eskdalemuir 52 mm, Loch Glascarnoch 58 mm, Shap 112 mm, Capel Curig 134
mm !!

Yet parts of southern England have had virtually sod-all for a week or
more...
--
Paul Hyett, Cheltenham

Paul Hyett wrote:

In uk.sci.weather on Sat, 8 Jan 2005 at 00:29:39, Colin Youngs wrote :
Capel Curig 134 mm !!
Yet parts of southern England have had virtually sod-all for a week or
more...

6.5mm here since the start of January - 1.0mm overnight. Indeed, I've
recorded 175mm of rain since the start of September last year! This
morning's cold front was barely noticeable except on my charts:
http://www.canterburyweather.co.uk/charts/?type=1

It has been breezy here - although my anemometer is badly positioned I
still recorded a 26mph gust which is as high as I've recorded since
September last year. An arbourist is taking a risk by trimming the top
30ft off the top of the 40ft Leylandii opposite our house (at least it
might improve the aspect if I ever get my anemometer mounted on the roof!).

--
Jonathan Stott
Canterbury Weather: http://www.canterburyweather.co.uk/