Brussels on Saturday 5 March

Rather cloudy morning - a few bright intervals. Cloud more broken for a
time early afternoon with some sunshine. Cloudy again later with a shower
of wet snow. Still cold but not freezing. Light NW wind veered to around
NE late afternoon.

Complete snow cover at first - less than 1 cm. It quickly turned into
slush and water in the morning and most was gone by the end of the day.
Afternoon snow shower left a slight cover on soil and grass.

Brussels Airport 4.1°C - overnight minimum -1.2°C - and 3 mm rainfall.
Brussels Uccle overnight minimum -1.4°C - and 1 mm rainfall overnight.

AERONET Lille MODIS satpic at 10.20 UTC
http://makeashorterlink.com/?U33816C9A
Large amounts of cloud over Belgium. Snow cover over the Netherlands and
Germany.

Graph http://www.irceline.be/cgi-bin/metevol.ksh?r012

Brussels Airport http://weather.noaa.gov/weather/current/EBBR.html

Colin Youngs
Brussels