Meteosat 8 satellite picture from Ferdinand Valk's site at 12.00 UTC on
Friday 1st January http://www.fvalk.com/images/Day_image/MSG-1200-EUR.jpg

Meteosat MSG-2 satellite picture from Bernard Burton's site at 12.00 UTC on
Friday 1st January http://www.woksat.info/etcsa01m/sa01-msg-1200-uk.html

NOAA 19 satellite picture from Bernard Burton's site at 12.30 UTC on Friday
1st January http://www.woksat.info/etcsa01/sa01-1230-b-uk.html

Clear over much of the southern half of Britain with lines of showers to the
east and west. Northern Britain rather cloudy with showers. Low cloud
over Belgium clearing from the west.


UK min. temps on Thursday night http://tinyurl.com/yl5d2oo

Castlederg and Loch Glascarnoch -6.6°C, Machrihanish -6.8°C,
Prestwick -7.1°C, Aboyne -7.2°C, Trawsgoed -7.5°C, Drumalbin -7.6°C,
Edinburgh Gogarbank -7.9°C, Altnaharra -8.0°C, Tulloch Bridge -9.0°C,
Strathallan -14.3°C.

Weybourne 2.0°C, Guernsey 2.4°C, St Mary's Scilly and Jersey 4.1°C.


UK max. temps on Friday http://tinyurl.com/yf7ar5p

Prestwick and Warcop Range -0.9°C, Fylingdales -0.5°C, Bingley -0.4°C,
Ballykelly, Shap and Sennybridge -0.1°C.

Kirkwall, Ronaldsway and Mumbles 4.8°C, Wick 4.9°C, Fair Isle and Chivenor
5.0°C, Lossiemouth 5.2°C, Tiree and Aberdaron 5.3°C, Jersey 5.6°C, St
Mary's Scilly 5.7°C, Rosehearty 6.3°C.

OGIMET summary http://tinyurl.com/y9enhk6


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

Widespread wintry showers over north and east Scotland and NE England on
Friday - snow except in the far north and NW of Scotland. Sleet and snow
showers over west and south Wales from mid-afternoon. Organised band of
showers moves SW over Scotland and NE England during the evening.

Rainfall totals in 24 hours ending 18.00 UTC on Friday
http://tinyurl.com/ylhxyzx

Kirkwall, Charterhall and Lake Vyrnwy 4 mm, Lerwick 5 mm, Wick and
Rosehearty 7 mm, Baltasound 8 mm, Copley 8.5 mm, Stornoway 9 mm, Kinloss
and Boulmer 11 mm, Lossiemouth 18 mm.


Location of some UK stations
http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/educatio...r_data_uk.html


Colin Youngs
Brussels