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

NOAA 16 VIS satellite pictures from Bernard Burton's site at 12.52 UTC on
Sunday 8 February
http://www.btinternet.com/~wokingham...252-c-uk-n.JPG
http://www.btinternet.com/~wokingham...252-d-uk-s.JPG

NOAA 16 VIS satellite picture from Dundee at 12.53 UTC on Sunday 8 February
http://makeashorterlink.com/?M11761757

NOAA 16 VIS satellite picture from DLR at 12.43 UTC on Sunday 8 February
http://www.dfd.dlr.de/ftp/put/wetter...2081243.uk.jpg

Showers moving down over Scotland from the NW. Bands of convective cloud
running NW to SE over England and Wales with a few showers through the
Midlands and SE England. Rather cloudy over the Low Countries with heavy
showers over SE Netherlands but brighter in the north.


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

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

Inverbervie -2.1°C, Loch Glascarnoch -2.3°C, Baltasound and
Aviemore -2.4°C, Wick -2.9°C, Lossiemouth -4.0°C, Altnaharra -4.2°C,
Kinloss -4.3°C, Tain Range -4.6°C, Aboyne -5.5°C.

Yeovilton 5.1°C, Solent MRSC 5.3°C, Plymouth 5.6°C, St Mawgan 5.8°C,
Culdrose 6.3°C, Camborne 6.4°C, Guernsey 6.5°C, St Mary's 8.2°C.


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

Scotland 1 to 5°C; Northern Isles 1 to 3°C; Western Isles 3 to 5°C;
Northern England 4 to 7°C; Midlands and East Anglia 6 to 9°C; SE England 7
to 10°C; SW England 7 to 9°C.

Lerwick 0.7°C, Aviemore 1.6°C, Copley 2.3°C, Wick 2.5°C, Kirkwall 3.1°C,
Aberdeen and Eskdalemuir 3.2°C, Gogarbank 3.5°C.

Boscombe Down and Guernsey 8.9°C, London MET, Shoreham and Herstmonceux
9.0°C, Gravesend and Jersey 9.1°C, Bournemouth and Thorney Island 9.3°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

Areas of squally wintry showers move SE on Saturday night. Snow in
northern Scotland. Showers over England have mostly moved away to the east
by Sunday morning. Widespread wintry showers still in Scotland in the
morning but they become confined largely to the north by midday. A few
showers in the Midlands and SE England in the afternoon.

Sella Ness, Capel Curig, Manchester, Bingley and Coningsby 7 mm,
Altnaharra, Aultbea, Keswick and St Bees Head 8 mm, Kirkwall and Loch
Glascarnoch 9 mm, Tulloch Bridge 10 mm.

Strongest gusts - Foula, Ronaldsway and Bangor (NI) 55 kn, South Uist 56
kn, Aberporth and Crosby 57 kn, Kirkwall 58 kn, Fair Isle and Barra 59
kn, Machrihanish 60 kn, Sule Skerry 61 kn.


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


Colin Youngs
Brussels