Meteosat 8 satellite picture from Ferdinand Valk's site at 12.00 UTC
on Friday 16th March
http://www.fvalk.com/images/Day_imag...8-1200-EUR.jpg

NOAA 18 satellite picture from Bernard Burton's site at 12.26 UTC on
Friday 16th March
http://www.woksat.info/etcpc16/pc16-1226-e-uk.html

Meteosat MSG-1 satellite picture from Bernard Burton's site at 12.00
UTC on Friday 16th March
http://www.woksat.info/etcpc16m/pc16-msg-1200-uk.html

Mostly cloudy over Ireland and northern Britain but sunny in most of
the south. Band of frontal cloud from northern Germany through the
Low Countries to northern France.


UK min. temps on Thursday http://tinyurl.com/2sm3xy

Shap -1.2°C, Church Fenton -1.3°C, Woodford, Copley and Leeming
-1.4°C, Capel Curig and Scampton -1.7°C, Eskdalemuir -2.0°C,
Shawbury -2.4°C, Warcop Range -2.5°C, Topcliffe -4.2°C.

London MO 8.7°C, Solent MRSC 8.8°C, Thorney Island 8.9°C, Gravesend
9.2°C, Portland and St Catherine's Point 9.3°C (from Ogimet).


UK max. temps on Friday http://tinyurl.com/3429br

Spadeadam 5.5°C, Bingley 5.9°C, Capel Curig 6.1°C, Sennybridge and
Redesdale 6.2°C, Shap 6.3°C (from Ogimet).

Shoeburyness, Thorney Island and Northolt 13.2°C, Herstmonceux
13.3°C, Bournemouth 13.4°C, Charlwood 13.6°C, Heathrow and
Gravesend 13.7°C, London MO 13.9°C, Solent MRSC 14.3°C.

OGIMET synops summary http://tinyurl.com/2m4tp6


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

Rain in western and northern Scotland on Thursday night and Friday and
some outbreaks of rain in southern Scotland late in the day.

Rainfall totals http://tinyurl.com/2u75yb

Aviemore 8 mm, Fair Isle 9 mm, Stornoway 10 mm, Aultbea 11 mm,
Kirkwall 12 mm, Baltasound, Lerwick and Altnaharra 13 mm, Lusa/Skye
14 mm, Tulloch Bridge 17 mm, Loch Glascarnoch 23 mm.


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


Colin Youngs
Brussels