Meteosat 8 satellite picture from F. Valk's site at 12.00 UTC on Tuesday 22
March
http://www.fvalk.com/images/nos/2005-03-22-1200-eur.jpg

NOAA 16 VIS satellite picture from Bernard Burton's site at 13.56 UTC on
Tuesday 22 March
http://www.btinternet.com/~wokingham...1356-b-uk.html

NOAA 16 VIS satellite picture from Dundee at 13.57 UTC on Tuesday 22 March
http://makeashorterlink.com/?Z59712ABA

NOAA 16 VIS satellite picture from DLR at 13.50 UTC on Tuesday 22 March
http://www.dfd.dlr.de/ftp/put/wetter...3221350.uk.jpg

Extensive cloud over the British Isles with a front over the north and east.
Frontal cloud over Belgium but most of the Netherlands is still bright.


UK min. temps on Monday night
http://www.uni-koeln.de/math-nat-fak...europazoom.gif
or http://meteocentre.com/analyse/map_m...lang=en&map=uk (blue
figures)

Scotland 5 to 10°C; Northern Isles 6 to 7°C; Western Isles 8 to 10°C;
Northern England 5 to 11°C; Midlands 7 to 12°C; East Anglia 7 to 11°C; SE
England 9 to 13°C; SW England 9 to 11°C; Wales 10 to 12°C; Northern
Ireland 8 to 11°C.

06z Rosehearty and Boulmer 6.0°C, Strathallan 5.9°C, Lerwick 5.8°C,
Aboyne and Inverbervie 5.6°C, Redesdale 5.4°C.
09z Aberdeen 5.6°C, Spadeadam 5.5°C, Copley 5.3°C, Carterhouse 5.0°C,
Boltshope Park 4.4°C, Glen Ogle 2.5°C.

06z Coleshill and Brize Norton 11.5°C, Langdon Bay 11.6°C, Shawbury
11.8°C, Valley 12.4°C, Heathrow 12.9°C.

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

Scotland 7 to 17°C; Northern Isles 7 to 8°C; Western Isles 11 to 15°C;
Northern England 9 to 16°C; Midlands 13 to 15°C; East Anglia 12 to 15°C;
SE England 11 to 16°C; SW England and Wales 10 to 14°C; Northern Ireland
11 to 14°C.

18z Inverbervie 7.0°C, Fair Isle 7.3°C, Lerwick 7.4°C, Kirkwall 7.9°C,
Aberdeen 8.0°C, Baltasound 8.2°C, Glen Ogle 8.8°C.

18z Holbeach 15.3°C, Lusa/Skye and Hawarden 15.4°C, London MO 15.5°C,
Carlisle 15.7°C, Aviemore 16.3°C, Kinloss 16.4°C, Aultbea and Edinburgh
Gogarbank 16.7°C.

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


Rainfall radar http://www.westwind.ch/w_0rad.php United Kingdom -30h ANIM
Broad but broken area of rain crosses Britain on Monday night and Tuesday -
clearing eastern England by mid-afternoon. Showers move NE through SW
England and Wales later.

Ballypatrick, Port Ellen on Islay and Capel Curig 10 mm, Barra and
Cardinham 10.8 mm, Lough Fea 11.0 mm, Bournemouth 11.3 mm, Cardiff MO
12.4 mm, Mumbles 13.0 mm, Glasgow Bishopton 13.6 mm, Dunkeswell 14.2 mm,
Eskdalemuir 17.6 mm, Shap 22.0 mm, Haytor 23.5 mm.


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


Colin Youngs
Brussels