Freezing fog - Bishopton 0.6°C maximum
 

Meteosat 8 satellite picture from F. Valk's site at 12.00 UTC on Thursday 2
December
http://www.fvalk.com/images/Day_imag...2-1200-eur.jpg

NOAA 16 VIS satellite picture from Bernard Burton's site at 13.12 UTC on
Thursday 2 December
http://www.btinternet.com/~wokingham...1312-c-uk.html

NOAA 17 VIS satellite picture from Dundee at 10.51 UTC on Thursday 2
December
http://masl.gnomehack.com/?R2F312DE9

NOAA 17 VIS satellite picture from DLR at 12.26 UTC on Thursday 2 December
http://www.dfd.dlr.de/ftp/put/wetter...2021226.uk.jpg

Frontal cloud moving into Ireland and NW Scotland and frontal cloud also
through the Channel and SE England. Areas of fog in central Scotland and
NW England. Cloud near the Belgian coast and in NE Netherlands. Fog and
cloud in SE Belgium.


Temperature extremes again taken from SYNOPs only.


UK min. temps on Wednesday night
http://www.medvale.demon.co.uk/weath...s/mn021204.jpg

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

Machrihanish -1.6°C, Leuchars -1.7°C, Prestwick -1.8°C, Yeovilton -2.4°C,
Eskdalemuir -2.7°C, Gogarbank -3.0°C, Aviemore -3.2°C.

Valley 3.5°C, Waddington 3.6°C, Watnall 3.7°C, Bridlington 4.6°C, St
Mary's 6.3°C, Guernsey 6.7°C.


UK max. temps on Thursday
http://www.medvale.demon.co.uk/weath...s/mx021204.jpg

Scotland 2 to 8°C; Northern Isles 6 to 7°C; Western Isles and East Anglia
6 to 9°C; Northern England 0 to 9°C; Midlands 6 to 8°C; SE England 5 to
7°C; SW England 7 to 10°C; Wales 6 to 10°C; Northern Ireland 4 to 8°C.

Bishopton 0.6°C, Leuchars 3.0°C, Prestwick 3.7°C, Eskdalemuir 3.8°C,
Aviemore 3.9°C, Gogarbank 4.2°C.

South Uist and Ronaldsway 9.5°C, St Athan 9.8°C, St Mawgan 9.9°C,
Plymouth 10.0°C, St Mary's 10.4°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

Showers on Wednesday night in north and west Wales and NW England and near
the coast of NE England. Showers in NW Scotland on Thursday with more
general rain reaching the Western Isles in the late evening.

Tiree 1.2 mm, Crosby 1.6 mm, Wick, Valley and Coltishall 2 mm, Lerwick
and Loftus 6 mm.


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


Colin Youngs
Brussels