MSG-1 satellite picture from F. Valk's site at 12.00 UTC on Thursday
http://www.fvalk.com/images/Day_imag...1-1200-eur.jpg

NOAA 16 VIS satellite pictures from Bernard Burton's site at 12.40 UTC on
Thursday
http://www.btinternet.com/~wokingham...240-b-uk-n.JPG
http://www.btinternet.com/~wokingham...240-c-uk-s.JPG

NOAA 16 VIS satellite picture from Dundee at 12.42 UTC on Thursday
http://makeashorterlink.com/?N17C34FD5

NOAA 16 VIS satellite picture from DLR at 12.31 UTC on Thursday
http://www.dfd.dlr.de/ftp/put/wetter...9111231.uk.jpg

Great Britain mostly cloudy under an occlusion and warm front but it is
still sunny in East Anglia. Cold front over eastern Ireland with clearance
behind. Rather cloudy in the centre and east of the Netherlands and much
high cloud over Belgium.


UK min. temps on Wednesday night
http://www.uni-koeln.de/math-nat-fak...europazoom.gif

Scotland 0 to 12°C; Northern Isles 7 to 11°C; Western Isles 8 to 13°C;
Northern England 3 to 11°C; Midlands and SE England 6 to 14°C; East Anglia
6 to 10°C; SW England 12 to 16°C.

Tain Range 2.5°C, Glenlivet and Eskdalemuir 2.3°C, Loch Glascarnoch 2.1°C,
Lochluichart and Strathallan 2.0°C, Aboyne and Aviemore 0.4°C, Altnaharra
0.2°C, Redesdale 0.1°C.

Yeovilton 13.9°C, Culdrose 14.4°C, Solent MRSC 14.5°C, Camborne 14.6°C,
St Athan 14.7°C, St Mawgan 14.9°C, St Mary's 16.3°C.


UK max. temps on Thursday
http://www.uni-koeln.de/math-nat-fak...europazoom.gif

Scotland 15 to 21°C; Northern Isles 14 to 16°C; Western Isles 15 to 18°C;
Northern England 16 to 22°C; Midlands and East Anglia 17 to 21°C; SE
England 16 to 20°C; SW England 18 to 22°C.

Stornoway 15.1°C, Lerwick and Eskdalemuir 15.2°C, Wick 15.4°C, Kirkwall
15.9°C, Tiree 16.5°C, Aviemore 16.6°C.

Crosby and Yeovilton 21.2°C, Lossiemouth and St Mary's 21.4°C, Keswick
21.8°C, Hawarden 21.9°C, Camborne 22.4°C.


Rainfall radar http://www.westwind.ch/w_0rad.php United Kingdom -30h ANIM
Rainfall radar stills http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/live/brradar.shtml

Rain moves into Wales from Ireland in the early hours of Thursday and
extends from NW Scotland to central southern England by morning. Rain band
moves slowly east - light and sporadic in the south but heavier in
Scotland -
reaching eastern England in the early afternoon. Further rain crosses
Scotland, Wales and northern England later in the afternoon.

Lusa/Skye and Prestwick 5 mm, Eskdalemuir 6 mm, Port Ellen on Islay 6.6
mm, Bishopton and Machrihanish 7.2 mm, Tiree 7.9 mm, West Freugh 8.4 mm,
Capel Curig 8.8 mm, South Uist 9.4 mm, Barra 10.8 mm.


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


Colin Youngs
Brussels