MSG-1 satellite picture from F. Valk's site at 12.00 UTC on January 2nd
http://www.fvalk.com/images/Day_imag...2-1200-eur.jpg

NOAA 16 VIS satellite pictures from Bernard Burton's site at 13.10 UTC on
January 2nd
http://www.btinternet.com/~wokingham...310-b-uk-n.JPG
http://www.btinternet.com/~wokingham...310-c-uk-s.JPG

NOAA 16 VIS satellite picture from Dundee at 13.11 UTC on January 2nd
http://makeashorterlink.com/?U681531F6

NOAA 16 VIS satellite picture from DLR at 13.01 UTC on January 2nd
http://www.dfd.dlr.de/ftp/put/wetter...1021301.uk.jpg

Frontal cloud covers Ireland and high cloud is moving into Scotland. Broad
band of cloud marks the line of the old occlusion through England. Sunny
in SW Wales, SW England and East Anglia. Cloud over parts of south and
east Belgium but west, central and NW Belgium and most of the Netherlands
are sunny.

Snow cover visible in Belgium and the north, west and SW of the Netherlands
http://www.btinternet.com/~wokingham...310-g-eu-n.JPG


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

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

Machrihanish 0.5°C, Gogarbank 0.2°C, South Uist 0.0°C, Aviemore -0.6°C,
Leuchars -0.9°C, Bishopton -1.7°C.

Solent MRSC 5.8°C, Culdrose 6.6°C, St Mawgan 6.7°C, Camborne and Guernsey
7.1°C, St Mary's 8.4°C.


UK max. temps on Friday
http://www.medvale.demon.co.uk/weath...s/mx020104.jpg

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

Bishopton 0.9°C, Aviemore 2.4°C, Eskdalemuir and Copley 2.8°C, Leuchars
and Gogarbank 2.9°C, Langdon Bay 3.1°C.

Ronaldsway 7.1°C, Guernsey 7.2°C, Plymouth 7.7°C, St Mawgan 8.0°C,
Camborne 8.3°C, Culdrose 8.4°C, St Mary's 9.1°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

Scattered outbreaks of rain across Wales and England on Thursday night die
out by morning. Rain in the north of Ireland by midday on Friday extends
to the whole northern half of Ireland and western Scotland by evening.

Boulmer and High Wycombe 4 mm, Loftus 5 mm, Kenley 7 mm, Fair Isle 18 mm,
Sella Ness 23 mm, Lerwick and Baltasound 26 mm.


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


Colin Youngs
Brussels