MSG-1 satellite picture from F. Valk's site at 12.00 UTC on Tuesday
http://www.fvalk.com/images/Day_imag...5-1200-eur.jpg

NOAA 16 IR satellite picture from Bernard Burton's site at 16.32 UTC on
Tuesday
http://www.btinternet.com/~wokingham...-1632-c-uk.JPG

NOAA 16 VIS satellite picture from Dundee at 13.40 UTC on Tuesday
http://makeashorterlink.com/?U485224A6

NOAA 16 VIS satellite picture from DLR at 13.29 UTC on Tuesday
http://www.dfd.dlr.de/ftp/put/wetter...1251329.uk.jpg

Variable skies over much of the British Isles but with extensive high cloud.
Band of frontal cloud over eastern and southern England. Low Countries
also cloudy with thicker cloud in the east.


Tonight (Tuesday)
http://www.thisisbournemouth.co.uk/d...er/minmax.html is
displaying Monday's extremes so once again the figures below are taken
mostly from the synops.

UK min. temps on Monday night
http://www.medvale.demon.co.uk/weath...s/mn251103.jpg

Scotland and Northern England 1 to 8°C; Northern Isles 5 to 7°C; Western
Isles 4 to 6°C; Midlands -1 to 3°C; East Anglia 0 to 4°C; SE England -2
to 6°C; SW England 0 to 7°C.

Coltishall and Herstmonceux 0.9°C, Wittering 0.5°C, Wattisham and Brize
Norton 0.0°C, Boscombe Down -0.2°C, Yeovilton -0.5°C.

Gogarbank 7.4°C, Machrihanish 7.6°C, Prestwick 8.1°C, Ronaldsway 8.8°C,
Valley 9.1°C, St Mary's 9.5°C.


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

Scotland 4 to 9°C; Scottish islands 6 to 9°C; Northern England 6 to 11°C;
Midlands 10 to 11°C; East Anglia 9 to 11°C; Southern England 10 to 12°C.

Aviemore 5.3°C, Wick 6.5°C, Kirkwall 6.7°C, Stornoway and Kinloss 6.8°C,
Lerwick 7.3°C, Bishopton 7.4°C.

St Mawgan and Heathrow 11.8°C, Solent MRSC 11.9°C, Culdrose, Plymouth and
St Athan 12.0°C, Yeovilton and Guernsey 12.3°C, St Mary's 12.8°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

Outbreaks of rain in Scotland on Monday night in two distinct bands. Some
rain also in NW England and Wales later in the night but it largely dies out
early on Tuesday morning. Widespread showers in north and west Scotland in
the morning with scattered outbreaks of rain in SW and central southern
England. Rain band becomes more active from central southern England to
the Wash by mid-afternoon and moves slowly east. Further rain develops
over NW England and Wales and later SW England and an extensive rain area
covers central Ireland, the Irish Sea, SW Scotland, NW England, Wales and SW
England in the evening.

Baltasound, Eskdalemuir and St Mary's 7 mm, Sella Ness, Machrihanish,
Bishopton, Milford Haven and Odiham 8 mm, Tiree, Barra and South Uist 9 mm,
Shap 10 mm, Bournemouth 11 mm, Tulloch Bridge 14 mm, Loch Glascarnoch 15
mm, Capel Curig 19 mm.


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


Colin Youngs
Brussels