Meteosat-8 satellite picture from F. Valk's site at 12.00 UTC on Thursday 19
February
http://www.fvalk.com/images/Day_imag...9-1200-eur.jpg

NOAA 16 VIS satellite picture from Bernard Burton's site at 14.08 UTC on
Thursday 19 February
http://www.btinternet.com/~wokingham...-1408-b-uk.JPG

NOAA 16 VIS satellite picture from Dundee at 14.10 UTC on Thursday 19
February
http://makeashorterlink.com/?O29915677

NOAA 16 VIS satellite picture from DLR at 14.01 UTC on Thursday 19 February
http://www.dfd.dlr.de/ftp/put/wetter...2191401.uk.jpg

Broken band of cloud through the Borders to SE Ireland. Sunny in most of
Scotland and north and west Ireland. Bands of fair-weather cumulus running
NE to SW through England and Wales - denser towards the SE and in the
Channel. Plenty of sunshine in the northern half of the Netherlands with
similar bands of fair-weather cumulus but extensive areas of cloud over the
south and over much of Belgium.


UK min. temps on Wednesday night
http://www.medvale.demon.co.uk/weath...s/mn190204.jpg

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

St Angelo (NI) -4.4°C, Castlederg (NI) -4.7°C, Aboyne -4.8°C,
Lossiemouth -4.9°C, Tain Range -5.1°C, Strathallan -5.6°C, Loch
Glascarnoch and Aviemore -6.5°C, Altnaharra -7.0°C, Tulloch Bridge -8.0°C.

Langdon Bay 3.7°C, Manchester, Yeovilton and Coltishall 3.9°C, Boulmer
4.2°C, Lerwick and Guernsey 5.1°C, St Mary's 6.3°C.


UK max. temps on Thursday
http://www.medvale.demon.co.uk/weath...s/mx190204.jpg

Scotland 5 to 9°C; Scottish islands 7 to 9°C; Northern England 5 to 10°C;
Midlands, East Anglia and SW England 6 to 8°C; SE England 6 to 9°C.

Copley 5.3°C, Eskdalemuir and Langdon Bay 5.5°C, Wattisham 5.9°C,
Dunkeswell 6.3°C, Coltishall 6.4°C, Lerwick 6.5°C.

Ronaldsway 9.1°C, Leuchars, Leeming and Cardiff WC 9.2°C, West Freugh and
Hawarden 9.3°C, Topcliffe 9.4°C, Llanbedr 9.6°C, Crosby 10.2°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

Scattered light showers move westwards over England on Wednesday night. A
few showers in northern England on Thursday morning.

Boulmer, Loftus, Wattisham, Andrewsfield, Herstmonceux and Manston 1 mm,
Copley 1.3 mm.


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


Colin Youngs
Brussels