Meteosat 8 satellite picture from Ferdinand Valk's site at 12.00 UTC on
Tuesday 21st March
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
Tuesday 21st March
http://www.btinternet.com/~wokingham...1338-b-uk.html

Meteosat MSG-1 satellite picture from Bernard Burton's site at 12.00 UTC on
Tuesday 21st March
http://www.btinternet.com/~wokingham...g-1200-uk.html

Snow showers streaming into Scotland from the far north. Mostly cloudy in
England and Wales. Cloudy in central and southern Belgium and the north of
the Netherlands. Quite sunny elsewhere in the Low Countries.


UK min. temps on Monday night http://makeashorterlink.com/?C187525DC or
http://www.uni-koeln.de/math-nat-fak...europazoom.gif

06.00 - Altnaharra -1.8°C, Wick -1.9°C, Baltasound and Kirkwall -2.0°C,
Aviemore -2.4°C, Tulloch Bridge -2.6°C.

09.00 - Copley -1.9°C, Lerwick -3.0°C, Glenlivet -3.1°C,
Drumalbin -3.3°C, Loch Glascarnoch -3.5°C, Aboyne -3.7°C, Glen
Ogle -5.4°C.

06.00 - Valley and Plymouth 3.4°C, Camborne 3.5°C, Solent MRSC 3.9°C,
Guernsey 4.9°C, St Mary's 5.8°C.


UK max. temps on Tuesday http://makeashorterlink.com/?G297625DC or
http://www.uni-koeln.de/math-nat-fak...europazoom.gif

Glen Ogle -1.0°C, Lerwick -0.1°C, Baltasound and Fair Isle 0.4°C,
Kirkwall 1.5°C, Aviemore 1.7°C.

Filton 6.8°C, Mumbles 6.9°C, Portland 7.0°C, West Freugh, St Athan and
Solent MRSC 7.1°C, Chivenor and Bournemouth 7.2°C, Pembrey Sands 8.5°C,
St Catherine's Point 9.8°C.

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


Rainfall radar
http://www.metoffice.com/weather/eur...animation.html

Mass of wintry showers over the north of Scotland on Tuesday afternoon and
evening. Rain close to SW England in the evening.

Rainfall totals http://makeashorterlink.com/?U1A7325DC

Baltasound, Lerwick and Barra 1 mm, Wick 1.3 mm, Aultbea and Altnaharra
1.4 mm, Leeming 1.7°C, Aviemore 1.8 mm, Fair Isle 2 mm, Kirkwall 2.2 mm,
Copley 2.7 mm.


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


Colin Youngs
Brussels

21/03/2006 22:13:19
Colin Youngs wrote in message


Meteosat 8 satellite picture from Ferdinand Valk's site at 12.00
UTC on
Tuesday 21st March
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
Tuesday 21st March
http://www.btinternet.com/~wokingham...oc21-1338-b-uk.
html

Meteosat MSG-1 satellite picture from Bernard Burton's site at 12.
00 UTC on
Tuesday 21st March
http://www.btinternet.com/~wokingham...oc21-msg-1200-
uk.html

Snow showers streaming into Scotland from the far north. Mostly
cloudy in
England and Wales. Cloudy in central and southern Belgium and the
north of
the Netherlands. Quite sunny elsewhere in the Low Countries.


UK min. temps on Monday night http://makeashorterlink.
com/?C187525DC or
http://www.uni-koeln.de/math-nat-
fak/geomet/meteo/winfos/TTmineuropazoom.gif

06.00 - Altnaharra -1.8°C, Wick -1.9°C, Baltasound and Kirkwall
-2.0°C,
Aviemore -2.4°C, Tulloch Bridge -2.6°C.

09.00 - Copley -1.9°C, Lerwick -3.0°C, Glenlivet -3.1°C,
Drumalbin -3.3°C, Loch Glascarnoch -3.5°C, Aboyne -3.7°C, Glen
Ogle -5.4°C.

06.00 - Valley and Plymouth 3.4°C, Camborne 3.5°C, Solent MRSC
3.9°C,
Guernsey 4.9°C, St Mary's 5.8°C.


UK max. temps on Tuesday http://makeashorterlink.com/?G297625DC
or
http://www.uni-koeln.de/math-nat-
fak/geomet/meteo/winfos/TTmaxeuropazoom.gif

Glen Ogle -1.0°C, Lerwick -0.1°C, Baltasound and Fair Isle 0.4°C,
Kirkwall 1.5°C, Aviemore 1.7°C.

Filton 6.8°C, Mumbles 6.9°C, Portland 7.0°C, West Freugh, St
Athan and
Solent MRSC 7.1°C, Chivenor and Bournemouth 7.2°C, Pembrey Sands
8.5°C,
St Catherine's Point 9.8°C.

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


Rainfall radar
http://www.metoffice.com/weather/eur...animation.html

Mass of wintry showers over the north of Scotland on Tuesday
afternoon and
evening. Rain close to SW England in the evening.

Rainfall totals http://makeashorterlink.com/?U1A7325DC

Baltasound, Lerwick and Barra 1 mm, Wick 1.3 mm, Aultbea and
Altnaharra
1.4 mm, Leeming 1.7°C, Aviemore 1.8 mm, Fair Isle 2 mm,
Kirkwall 2.2 mm,
Copley 2.7 mm.


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


Colin Youngs
Brussels
Fair Isle mean temp for 24 hours 21z 20th to 21z 21st -1.1°Celsius
(average of max/min at 06, 09, 18, 21z)
Dave
Fair Isle

Fair Isle mean temp for 24 hours 21z 20th to 21z 21st -1.1°Celsius
(average of max/min at 06, 09, 18, 21z)
Dave
Fair Isle

Hi, Dave and all

When I was out about 22:20 taking the sheepdogs for their late-night comfort
stop, wind had backed NW and was in the region of F6, with drifting snow.
Snow was a little wetter than the very dry powder in the showers before
sunset, when we also had a hard frost. Areas of our side road which were
salted this morning are covering in, but snow has eased and wind dropped to
about F3 at time of posting.

Looking at the Meteosat image for 22:30 on Wetterzentrale

http://www.wetterzentrale.de/topkarten/fssatms1.html

the low off the Norwegian coast certainly seems to have potential for us in
Shetland. The feature due North of us also seems to be winding itself up
purposefully; from memory, both of these lows were showing as shallow
troughs a couple of days ago on the UKMO Metfaxes.

Could do with a bit of warmth to bring on the grass now - lambing due to
start in just over 3 weeks ....

Maurice

Sandwick, Shetland 60 North, 1 West

Nearer the Arctic Circle than Dave :-)