Meteosat 8 satellite picture from F. Valk's site at 12.30 UTC on Tuesday 15
March
http://www.fvalk.com/images/Day_imag...5-1230-eur.jpg

NOAA 16 VIS satellite picture from Bernard Burton's site at 13.36 UTC on
Tuesday 15 March
http://www.btinternet.com/~wokingham...1336-b-uk.html

NOAA 16 VIS satellite picture from Dundee at 13.37 UTC on Tuesday 15 March
http://makeashorterlink.com/?M15832EAA

NOAA 16 VIS satellite picture from DLR at 13.26 UTC on Tuesday 15 March
http://www.dfd.dlr.de/ftp/put/wetter...3151326.uk.jpg

Extensive cloud over the British Isles with orographic waves. Cloud moving
into the Low Countries from the west and north but sunshine ahead of it.


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

Scotland -1 to 7°C; Northern Isles -3 to 1°C; Western Isles 2 to 5°C;
Northern England and the Midlands 3 to 7°C; East Anglia 3 to 6°C; SE
England 2 to 6°C; SW England and Northern Ireland 5 to 9°C; Wales 4 to
7°C.

06z Aultbea 1.4°C, Aboyne 1.1°C, Altnaharra 0.9°C, Fair Isle 0.5°C.
09z Loch Glascarnoch 0.6°C, Aviemore 0.3°C, Kirkwall -0.6°C, Glen
Ogle -1.2°C, Lerwick -2.2°C, Baltasound -2.6°C, Redhill -2.8°C.

06z Valley 7.2°C, St Mawgan and Plymouth 7.9°C, Camborne 8.3°C,
Culdrose 8.4°C, St Mary's 9.3°C.


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

Scotland 7 to 13°C; Northern Isles 4 to 6°C; Western Isles 10 to 13°C;
Northern England 9 to 13°C; Midlands and SW England 11 to 14°C; East
Anglia 11 to 13°C; SE England 8 to 13°C; Wales 9 to 14°C; Northern
Ireland 12 to 15°C.

18z Lerwick 4.1°C, Fair Isle 4.9°C, Baltasound 5.0°C, Kirkwall 5.5°C,
Wick 6.9°C, Inverbervie 7.0°C, St Bees Head 7.3°C, Altnaharra 7.4°C.

18z Great Malvern 13.5°C, Belfast Aldergrove and Coningsby 13.6°C,
Cranwell 13.7°C, Castlederg 13.9°C, St Angelo 14.2°C, Chivenor 14.4°C,
Cardiff MO 14.5°C, St Mawgan 14.6°C, Ballykelly 15.2°C.

http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/...yesterday.html


Rainfall radar http://www.westwind.ch/w_0rad.php United Kingdom -30h ANIM

Rain moves north over Scotland on Monday night. Further rain reaches
Ireland on Tuesday morning and continues NE across NW England and Scotland,
clearing Scotland by mid-afternoon. Yet more rain crosses Scotland from
the west in the evening.

Carlisle 17.4 mm, Dundrennan 20.2 mm, Prestwick 20.3 mm, Spadeadam 21 mm,
Machrihanish 21.8 mm, Lusa/Skye 24.1 mm, Glasgow Bishopton 24.4 mm, Port
Ellen on Islay 25.0 mm, Eskdalemuir 31.4 mm, Capel Curig 33.6 mm, Shap
36.0 mm.


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


Colin Youngs
Brussels