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

NOAA 16 VIS satellite picture from Bernard Burton's site at 13.43 UTC on
Wednesday 8 December
http://www.btinternet.com/~wokingham...1343-b-uk.html

NOAA 17 VIS satellite picture from Dundee at 11.54 UTC on Wednesday 8
December
http://makeashorterlink.com/?X10832AF9

NOAA 17 VIS satellite picture from DLR at 11.49 UTC on Wednesday 8 December
http://www.dfd.dlr.de/ftp/put/wetter...2081149.uk.jpg

Frontal cloud across northern Scotland and Ireland. Areas of low cloud
over much of the Midlands and southern England. Much of the Low Countries
still covered by low cloud but it is brighter in the north of the
Netherlands and northern Belgium.


UK min. temps on Tuesday night
http://www.medvale.demon.co.uk/weath...s/mn081204.jpg

Scotland -5 to 8°C; Northern Isles 4 to 7°C; Western Isles 3 to 9°C;
Northern England -3 to 5°C; Midlands -2 to 8°C; East Anglia -2 to 7°C; SE
England 6 to 8°C; SW England 4 to 9°C; Wales 2 to 9°C; Northern Ireland 3
to 6°C.

Spadeadam -1.6°C, Coltishall -1.7°C, Church Fenton -1.9°C, Copley -2.1°C,
Dishforth -2.3°C, Leeming and Leconfield -2.4°C, Albemarle -2.6°C,
Redesdale -2.7°C, Topcliffe -3.2°C, Aboyne -5.0°C.

Tiree and Brize Norton 7.5°C, Shawbury and Coleshill 7.7°C, Langdon Bay
7.8°C, Solent MRSC 8.0°C, St Mary's 9.6°C.


UK max. temps on Wednesday
http://www.medvale.demon.co.uk/weath...s/mx081204.jpg

Scotland, Wales and the Midlands 9 to 12°C; Northern Isles around 10°C;
Western Isles 11 to 12°C; Northern England 6 to 12°C; East Anglia 8 to
9°C; SE England 8 to 10°C; SW England and Northern Ireland 8 to 11°C.

Leeming 6.3°C, Bridlington and Lyneham 8.0°C, Dunkeswell and Boscombe Down
8.3°C, Coltishall and Wattisham 8.4°C.

Ballykelly (NI) and Altnaharra 11.6°C, Barra and Gogarbank 11.7°C,
Ronaldsway 11.9°C, Kinloss and Lossiemouth 12.0°C, Trawsgoed 12.3°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 outbreaks of rain in Ireland and western Scotland on Tuesday night
and rain more generally in western Scotland on Wednesday. Area of heavy
rain in the western Highlands for part of the afternoon

Castlederg (NI), Barra, South Uist, Port Ellen on Islay, Tulloch Bridge,
Bishopton and Strathallan 2 mm, Lough Fea (NI), Tiree and Loch Glascarnoch
3 mm, Lusa/Skye 26 mm !


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


Colin Youngs
Brussels