Meteosat 8 satellite picture from Ferdinand Falk's site at 12.00 UTC on
Thursday 5th March
http://www.fvalk.com/images/Day_imag...8-1200-EUR.jpg

Meteosat MSG-2 satellite picture from Bernard Burton's site at 12.00 UTC on
Thursday 5th March http://www.woksat.info/etcrc05m/rc05-msg-1200-uk.html

NOAA 18 satellite picture from Bernard Burton's site at 13.07 UTC on
Thursday 5th March http://www.woksat.info/etcrc05/rc05-1307-b-uk.html

Band of cloud from eastern Scotland to Wales. Fairly sunny from NE England
through the Midlands to SW England. High cloud over western Belgium; cloud
denser and lower over the east.


UK min. temps on Wednesday night http://tinyurl.com/c568fk

Eskdalemuir -5.3°C, Spadeadam and Copley -5.4°C, Aviemore -5.5°C, Loch
Glascarnoch -5.6°C, Warcop Range -6.1°C, Drumalbin -6.2°C, Tulloch Bridge
and Redesdale -6.5°C, Aboyne -6.7°C, Shap -8.2°C.

Solent MRSC 2.6°C, Camborne 2.7°C, St Mary's (Scilly) 2.9°C, London MO
3.5°C, Baltasound 4.4°C.


UK max. temps on Thursday http://tinyurl.com/cu67cv

Glen Ogle 1.0°C, Spadeadam 1.6°C, Loch Glascarnoch, Aviemore and Warcop
Range 3.7°C.

St Athan 8.5°C, Filton, Heathrow, London MO and Langdon Bay 8.6°C,
Castlederg, Machrihanish, St Mary's (Scilly) and Gravesend 8.7°C, St Angelo
9.1°C, Herstmonceux 9.2°C.

OGIMET summary http://tinyurl.com/bq9y5e


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

Snow and sleet across parts of SW and central southern England early on
Thursday morning. Band of sleet and snow moves east over Scotland in the
morning followed by showers.

Rainfall totals in 24 hours ending 18.00 UTC on Thursday
http://tinyurl.com/b29jyo

Thorney Island 7 mm, Loch Glascarnoch, Stornoway and Lusa (Skye) 9 mm,
Dunkeswell and Guernsey 13 mm, St Catherine's Point and Bournemouth (Hurn)
14 mm, St Mary's (Scilly) 18 mm, Chivenor and Portland 20 mm.


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


Colin Youngs
Brussels