Meteosat 8 satellite picture from Ferdinand Valk's site at 12.00 UTC
on Saturday 26th January
http://www.fvalk.com/images/Day_imag...8-1200-EUR.jpg

NOAA 18 satellite picture from Bernard Burton's site at 13.09 UTC on
Saturday 26th January
http://www.woksat.info/etcqa26/qa26-1309-b-uk.html

Meteosat MSG-2 satellite picture from Bernard Burton's site at 12.00
UTC on Saturday 26th January
http://www.woksat.info/etcqa26m/qa26-msg-1200-uk.html

Frontal cloud over northern Britain. Quite sunny in the Midlands and
south Wales and southern England but a lot of high cloud in the
east. Fairly sunny in Belgium except for the SE.


UK min. temps on Friday night http://tinyurl.com/27vnnt

Stornoway and Yeovilton 3.3°C, Baltasound, Altnaharra, Loch
Glascanoch and Dunkeswell 3.1°C, Fair Isle 3.0°C, Kirkwall 2.5°C,
Lerwick 2.2°C, Bournemouth -0.1°C.

Boulmer 9.0°C, Knaresborough Scotton 9.1°C, Machrihanish 9.3°C,
Leeming 9.5°C, Ronaldsway 9.8°C - 06.00 UTC synops only except
Knaresborough.


UK max. temps on Saturday http://tinyurl.com/2zbzzg

Wick 4.6°C, Lerwick and Aviemore 5.7°C, Kirkwall and Kinloss 5.9°C
- 18.00 UTC synops only.

Hawarden and London MO 11.6°C, Trawsgoed 11.7°C, Hereford 11.8°C,
Rhyl and Chivenor 11.9°C, Pershore 12.0°C, Coleshill and Great
Malvern 12.2°C.

OGIMET summary http://tinyurl.com/2h68pp


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

Rain becomes widespread over Scotland except the south in the course
of Saturday afternoon.

Rainfall totals – 24 hours ending 18.00 UTC on Saturday http://tinyurl.com/23gx4q

South Uist and Altnaharra 12 mm, Loch Glascarnoch 13 mm, Aultbea and
Eskdalemuir 14 mm, Glasgow Bishopton 17 mm, Strathallan 21 mm, Lusa/
Skye 23 mm, Aviemore 27 mm, Tiree 32 mm, Tulloch Bridge 39 mm.

Peak gusts in 27 hours ending 18.00 UTC on Saturday - Dishforth and
Topcliffe 53 kn, Sumburgh and Wick 54 kn, Lerwick 56 kn, Leeming 57
kn, Fair Isle, Loftus and Boulmer 59 kn, Foula 67 kn.


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

Colin Youngs
Brussels