Meteosat 8 satellite picture from Ferdinand Valk's site at 12.00 UTC
on Wednesday 2nd January
http://www.fvalk.com/images/Day_imag...8-1200-EUR.jpg

NOAA 18 satellite picture from Bernard Burton's site at 12.20 UTC on
Wednesday 2nd January
http://www.woksat.info/etcqa02/qa02-1220-b-uk.html

Meteosat MSG-2 satellite picture from Bernard Burton's site at 12.00
UTC on Wednesday 2nd January
http://www.woksat.info/etcqa02m/qa02-msg-1200-uk.html

Frontal cloud over the west and north of the British Isles. Thin and
broken high and medium-level cloud over eastern England. Belgium
more or less clear of cloud.


UK min. temps on Tuesday night http://tinyurl.com/2gaywx

Rhyl, Trawsgoed and Liscombe 2.8°C, Boscombe Down 2.7°C, Dunkeswell
and Langdon Bay 2.5°C, Copley and Capel Curig 2.4°C, Jersey 1.5°C,
Sennybridge 0.1°C, Bournemouth -0.2°C.

St Mary’s 7.1°C, Tiree 8.2°C, South Uist 8.5°C, Stornoway 8.8°C -
06.00 UTC synops only.


UK max. temps on Wednesday http://tinyurl.com/yqe2uk

Copley 2.4°C, Guernsey and Langdon Bay 3.3°C, Waddington 3.7°C,
Wattisham 4.0°C - 18.00 UTC synops only.

Ballykelly 8.3°C, Altnaharra and Ronaldsway 8.4°C, Tiree 8.8°C,
Aultbea and Valley 8.9°C, South Uist 9.0°C, Stornoway 9.3°C.

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


Rainfall radar http://www.meteox.com/h.aspx?r=&soort=loop24uur&URL

Rain in eastern Scotland and northern England dies out slowly on
Wednesday morning with just a few patches remaining in Scotland in the
afternoon. Precipitation approaches SW England in the evening.

Rainfall totals – 24 hours ending 18.00 UTC on Wednesday
http://tinyurl.com/ytognw

Aboyne and Bridlington 5 mm, Inverbervie 6 mm, Altnaharra and Tain
Range 7 mm, Copley 9.0 mm, Leuchars 9 mm, Redesdale 11 mm,
Albemarle and Boulmer 12 mm, Spadeadam 13 mm, Aberdeen 16 mm.


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


Colin Youngs
Brussels