MSG-1 satellite picture from F. Valk's site at 12.00 UTC on January 4th
http://www.fvalk.com/images/Day_imag...4-1200-eur.jpg

NOAA 16 VIS satellite picture from Bernard Burton's site at 14.28 UTC on
January 4th
http://www.btinternet.com/~wokingham...-1428-b-uk.JPG

NOAA 16 VIS satellite picture from Dundee at 12.49 UTC on January 4th
http://makeashorterlink.com/?B2DB114F6

NOAA 16 VIS satellite picture from DLR at 12.38 UTC on January 4th
http://www.dfd.dlr.de/ftp/put/wetter...1041238.uk.jpg

Cloud covers much of the British Isles but Wales and SW England are brighter
and East Anglia and east Lincolnshire are quite sunny. Low Countries also
mainly cloudy but the cloud is beginning to break over the Netherlands and
the west and north of Belgium.


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

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

Coltishall 0.9°C, Stornoway, Wattisham and Marham 0.8°C, Eskdalemuir
0.6°C, Wick 0.3°C, Leuchars -1.3°C.

Plymouth 7.1°C, Culdrose 7.5°C, St Mawgan 7.6°C, Camborne 7.9°C,
Ronaldsway 8.3°C, Machrihanish 8.5°C, St Mary's 8.9°C.


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

Scotland 2 to 9°C; Northern Isles 3 to 5°C; Western Isles 7 to 10°C;
Northern England 4 to 9°C; Midlands 7 to 9°C; East Anglia 7 to 8°C; SE
England 6 to 8°C; SW England 5 to 10°C.

Lerwick 3.2°C, Eskdalemuir 4.2°C, Leuchars 4.3°C, Aviemore 4.4°C,
Kirkwall 5.2°C, Aberdeen, Copley and Yeovilton 5.5°C.

Machrihanish and South Uist 8.9°C, Culdrose 9.0°C, Plymouth 9.3°C, St
Mawgan 9.4°C, Guernsey 9.6°C, Camborne 9.8°C, St Mary's 10.1°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

Rain reaches the Western Isles on Sunday morning and moves into the far
north of Ireland and the Scottish mainland. Rain area moves gradually
south through Scotland in the afternoon and into northern England in the
evening.

Altnaharra 3 mm, Plymouth 3 mm, Tiree 5 mm, Machrihanish and South Uist
6 mm, Port Ellen on Islay 8 mm.

Northern Ireland - Portglenone, Ballypatrick, Lough Fea, Castlederg and
Ballykelly 6 mm.


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


Colin Youngs
Brussels