Meteosat-8 satellite picture from F. Valk's site at 12.00 UTC on Friday 6
February
http://www.fvalk.com/images/Day_imag...6-1200-eur.jpg

NOAA 16 VIS satellite pictures from Bernard Burton's site at UTC on Friday
6 February
http://www.btinternet.com/~wokingham...314-b-uk-n.JPG
http://www.btinternet.com/~wokingham...314-c-uk-s.JPG

NOAA 16 VIS satellite picture from Dundee at 13.16 UTC on Friday 6 February
http://makeashorterlink.com/?J20E26357

NOAA 16 VIS satellite picture from DLR at 13.06 UTC on Friday 6 February
http://www.dfd.dlr.de/ftp/put/wetter...2061306.uk.jpg

Showers in western Scotland. Developing low pressure area over Ireland and
cold front over SE England and the Channel. Broad band of frontal cloud
also covers the Low Countries.


UK min. temps on Thursday night
http://www.medvale.demon.co.uk/weath...s/mn060204.jpg

Scotland 3 to 8°C; Northern Isles 3 to 6°C; Western Isles 6 to 8°C;
Northern England 7 to 9°C; Midlands 7 to 10°C; East Anglia 9 to 10°C; SE
England 8 to 11°C; SW England 6 to 10°C.

Wick, Loch Glascarnoch and Tulloch Bridge 4.7°C, Sella Ness and Loch Fea
(NI) 4.4°C, Lossiemouth 4.3°C, Baltasound 4.2°C, Lerwick and Aviemore
3.9°C, Tain Range 3.7°C, Aboyne 3.0°C.

Brize Norton, Solent MRSC, Waddington and Wattisham 9.5°C, Wittering and
Marham 9.6°C, Coltishall 10.1°C, Plymouth and Heathrow 10.2°C, Guernsey
10.3°C.


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

Scotland 6 to 10°C; Northern Isles 7 to 8°C; Western Isles 8 to 9°C;
Northern and SW England 8 to 11°C; Midlands 8 to 10°C; East Anglia and SE
England 10 to 12°C.

Aviemore 5.5°C, Kirkwall and Eskdalemuir 7.0°C, Lerwick 7.2°C, Copley
7.4°C, Wick 8.3°C, Gogarbank 8.4°C.

Dishforth and Herstmonceux 11.2°C, Bridlington and Farnborough 11.4°C,
Solent MRSC 11.5°C, Northolt 11.6°C, Thorney Island and Manston 11.7°C,
Shoeburyness 11.9°C, Gravesend 12.2°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

Widespread showers in Scotland on Thursday night continue into Friday.
Rain moves into SW England around midnight and spreads NE into south Wales,
the Midlands and southern England by Friday morning. SE England stays dry
at first but the rain moves SE to clear Kent by early afternoon. An area
of heavy showers develops over NW Scotland. Further rain reaches southern
Ireland by early afternoon and moves into Wales, SW and NW England by early
evening. It breaks up by mid-evening with showers following.

Filton 15 mm, Culdrose and Cardinham 16 mm, Aultbea, St Mary's and
Chivenor 17 mm, Cardiff WC 18 mm, St Athan 20 mm, Camborne 22 mm, Benson
23 mm, Tulloch Bridge and Dunkeswell 25 mm, Lusa/Skye 26 mm, Loch
Glascarnoch 30 mm, Aviemore 31 mm.

Strongest gusts - Barra 50 kn, South Uist 52 kn, Culdrose 57 kn.


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


Colin Youngs
Brussels