Meteosat 7 satellite picture from F. Valk's site at 12.00 UTC on Tuesday 1
February
http://www.fvalk.com/images/Day_imag...1-1200-eur.jpg

NOAA 16 VIS satellite picture from Bernard Burton's site at 13.16 UTC on
Tuesday 1 February
http://www.btinternet.com/~wokingham...1316-b-uk.html

NOAA 16 VIS satellite picture from Dundee at 13.17 UTC on Tuesday 1 February
http://makeashorterlink.com/?A2635216A

NOAA 17 VIS satellite picture from DLR at 10.54 UTC on Tuesday 1 February
http://www.dfd.dlr.de/ftp/put/wetter...2011054.uk.jpg

Sunny in Scotland away from the north and west and quite sunny in much of
northern England. Large amounts of cloud over the rest of England and
Wales and in Ireland. Rather cloudy over the Low Countries with some
showers.


Extreme temperature figures below from SYNOPs only

UK min. temps on Monday night
http://www.medvale.demon.co.uk/weath...s/mn010205.jpg

Scotland and Northern and SE England 5 to 9°C; Northern Isles 3 to 4°C;
Northern Ireland and Western Isles 7 to 8°C; Midlands 6 to 9°C; East
Anglia 4 to 6°C; Wales and SW England 7 to 9°C.

Aberdeen 5.0°C, Wick and Langdon Bay 4.8°C, Wattisham 4.4°C, Copley
4.3°C, Kirkwall 3.9°C, Lerwick 2.5°C.

Prestwick and St Mary's 8.7°C, Ronaldsway 8.8°C, Glasgow Bishopton 8.9°C,
Valley 9.1°C, Solent MRSC 9.2°C.


UK max. temps on Tuesday
http://www.medvale.demon.co.uk/weath...s/mx010205.jpg

Scotland 7 to 13°C; Northern Ireland and Northern Isles 7 to 8°C; Western
Isles 9 to 10°C; Northern and Southern England and the Midlands 8 to 12°C;
East Anglia 7 to 9°C; Wales 8 to 13°C.

Lerwick 7.2°C, Wattisham 7.5°C, Belfast Aldergrove 7.6°C, Coltishall
7.7°C, Aberporth 7.9°C, Wick 8.11°C.

Yeovilton 11.6°C, Edinburgh Gogarbank 11.7°C, Leeming 11.8°C, Boulmer
11.9°C, Plymouth 12.2°C, Leuchars 12.4°C, St Athan 13.1°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

Scattered outbreaks of light rain in east and SE England on Monday night
move into the Midlands later. Light rain in parts of SE England on Tuesday
evening.

Boulmer, Loftus, Watnall, Bedford, Wainfleet and Wittering 2 mm, Lusa/Skye,
Aviemore, Charterhall and Cottesmore 3 mm, Loch Glascarnoch 7 mm.


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


Colin Youngs
Brussels