Meteosat 8 satellite picture from Ferdinand Valk's site at 12.00 UTC
on Saturday 3rd March
http://www.fvalk.com/images/Day_imag...8-1200-EUR.jpg

NOAA 18 VIS satellite picture from Bernard Burton's site at 12.58 UTC
on Saturday 3rd March
http://www.woksat.info/etcpc03/pc03-1258-b-uk.html

Meteosat MSG-1 satellite picture from Bernard Burton's site at 12.00
UTC on Saturday 3rd March
http://www.woksat.info/etcpc03m/pc03-msg-1200-uk.html

Broken convective cloud over Britain with showers over Ireland and the
Atlantic to the west. Belgium under cloud associated with the Low
over Germany.


UK min. temps on Friday night http://tinyurl.com/ywslwm

Portglenone and Baltasound 1.7°C, Kirkwall 1.3°C, Aviemore 1.0°C,
Lossiemouth 0.1°C, Aboyne -0.1°C, Kinloss -0.2°C, Tain Range
-0.3°C, Altnaharra -1.3°C, Loch Glascarnoch -1.7°C.

Solent MRSC 7.5°C, Culdrose and Plymouth 7.6°C, Camborne 8.6°C,
Guernsey 9.1°C, St Mary's 9.2°C (from synops list only).


UK max. temps on Saturday http://tinyurl.com/27r8tv

Lerwick 6.9°C, Eskdalemuir 7.9°C, Aviemore 8.5°C, Belfast
Aldergrove 9.0°C, Tiree 9.2°C (from synops list only).

Pershore, Coleshll and Gravesend 12.7°C, Farnborough and Shoeburyness
12.8°C, Heathrow 12.9°C, Great Malvern and Northolt 13.0°C,
Bournemouth 13.1°C, London MO 13.2°C.


Rainfall radar http://www.meteox.com/h.aspx?r=holid...oort=loop24uur
or http://www.meteogroup.co.uk/index.php?id=2755

Rain crosses Britain on Friday night followed by showers on Saturday -
especially over Ireland and Scotland.

Rainfall totals http://tinyurl.com/295y7g

Bedford and Weybourne 16 mm, Sennybridge 17 mm, Shobdon and Marham
19 mm, Hereford and Church Lawford 20 mm, Great Malvern and
Wittering 21 mm, Cottesmore 22 mm, Coleshill 26 mm.

Peak gusts Portland and Langdon Bay 50 kt, St Catherine's Point 54
kt, Sheerness 55 kt, Solent MRSC 57 kt.


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


Colin Youngs
Brussels