Meteosat 8 satellite picture from Ferdinand Valk's site at 12.00 UTC
on Tuesday 18th December
http://www.fvalk.com/images/Day_imag...8-1200-EUR.jpg

NOAA 18 satellite picture from Bernard Burton's site at 13.12 UTC on
Tuesday 18th December
http://www.woksat.info/etcpl18/pl18-1312-b-uk.html

Meteosat MSG-2 satellite picture from Bernard Burton's site at 12.00
UTC on Tuesday 18th December
http://www.woksat.info/etcpl18m/pl18-msg-1200-uk.html

Low cloud over the North Sea and much of England and eastern
Scotland. Sunny in north and west Scotland and NW England, and in
west Wales and parts of southern England. Ireland mostly cloudy.
Belgium mostly sunny except for low cloud near the coast and some
higher cloud near the French border.


UK min. temps on Monday night http://tinyurl.com/3495ea

Drumalbin -3.3°C, Glasgow Bishopton -3.4°C, Strathallan -6.0°C,
Loch Glascarnoch -6.7°C, Aviemore -7.8°C, Tain Range -8.3°C,
Kinloss -8.7°C, Lossiemouth -8.9°C, Aboyne -9.0°C, Altnaharra
-9.5°C.

Boulmer 5.0°C, Tiree and St Mary's 5.1°C, Ronaldsway 5.5°C,
Bridlington 5.9°C - 06.00 UTC synops only.


UK max. temps on Tuesday http://tinyurl.com/3x673q

Dunkeswell 1.2°C, Kinloss 2.4°C, Coleshill 3.0°C, Nottingham
Watnall and Wittering 3.2°C - 18.00 UTC synops only.

Baltasound and Port Ellen on Islay 6.9°C, Fair Isle 7.0°C, South
Uist 7.4°C, Culdrose 7.5°C, Stornoway and Tiree 7.6°C, Aultbea
7.8°C, St Mary's 8.5°C.

OGIMET summary http://tinyurl.com/2way7p


Rainfall radar http://www.meteox.com/h.aspx?r=&soort=loop24uur&URL
No precipitation on the radar.

Rainfall totals - 24 hours ending 18.00 UTC on Tuesday http://tinyurl.com/2pm6ly

No rainfall - 0.2 mm dew / frost in a few places.


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


Colin Youngs
Brussels