0815Z: CALM 4CI M04/M06 Q1025= RMK: Tn -5.5c temp didnt fall much from 20Z last night. COTRA. Phil -- www.layton.me.uk/meteo.htm

Here is a summary of the NWP output for noon on Thursday. Issued 0526, 4th January 2009 A change is on the way for northern areas of the UK, with milder, wet and windy likely to spread in from the Atlantic. Further south, much of England and Wales will retain cold conditions with overnight frosts into the weekend. Analysis and evolution to T+120 via GFS A ridge covers England and Wales, with...

Many of us have interests that overlap into other fields, especially those involving interesting natural events. I thought the current Yellowstone earthquake swarm might tickle your fancies :o) http://armsofmorpheus.blogspot.com/2009/01/yellowstone-supervolcano.html Vb

Sähkö Sähkön kulutus jatkaa laskuaan Sähkön kulutus jäi huhtikuussa runsaan prosentin edellisvuotta pienemmäksi. Vuoden neljän ensimmäisen kuukauden aikana sähköä on Suomessa kulunut 32,3 gigawattituntia eli yli kaksi prosenttia viime vuotta vähemmän. *Aika hurjaa pudotusta kun ennakoitiin viikko sitten teolisuuspiireissämme mitä lie +10% lisää ja nyt tuo väittää jo -6% vuosilaskua!!! Kuka...

Hi just got back, and apart from a drier story for Monday nothing seems to have changed much. Models are still struggling with the block big-time I notice with UKMO dramatically collapsing it. I rate a collapse this week on available evidence at 30%, and prefer to go with other models and ensembles on maintaining high pressure over UK giving very cold frosty nights and dry weather. The cold...

Meteosat 8 satellite picture from Ferdinand Valk's site at 12.00 UTC on Saturday 3rd January http://www.fvalk.com/images/Day_image/METEOSAT-8-1200-EUR.jpg Meteosat MSG-2 satellite picture from Bernard Burton's site at 12.00 UTC on Saturday 3rd January http://www.woksat.info/etcra03m/ra03-msg-1200-uk.html NOAA 18 satellite picture from Bernard Burton's site at 13.46 UTC on Saturday 3rd January

Brussels on Saturday 3rd January Quite foggy for a time after dawn. Fog dispersed by mid-morning and the rest of the day was sunny. Sky mostly clear but a few patches of high cloud later in the afternoon and some low cloud after dark. Still cold but almost no wind. Lower maximum at Brussels Airport because the fog persisted much longer there.

08Z: CALM SKC M06/M07 Q1030= RMK: Coldest night of Winter and since 17feb08. 22Z: CALM 2CI M05/M06 Q1028= RMK: Tn -6.0 Tx 1.0c Fine Winters Day. Phil

December-Cold,dry and sunny Mean max 6.0º (-1.1) Lowest mean max since 2001 Mean min 1.7º (-1.0) Month Mean 3.8º(-1.1) Lowest since 2001 Rain 22.4mm(38.9%) Driest since 1991 Sun 79.8hrs (177.4%) Air frosts 11 (4th highest no of Dec air frosts since 1979) 73.8hrs frost, 1 day with snow.

Tmin of -6.6C at about 08:20, now -5.7C at 09:20 Coldest night of the winter so far. -- Brian Wakem

Currently -1.0°C here at Southend. I notice the forecast for Tuesday was a max of 1.0°C, we may see some snow showers yet :-) -- Keith (Southend) http://www.southendweather.net e-mail: kreh at southendweather dot net

1000 OVC with thin stratus. Temp. -2.7C Min -4.1C Very little wind. Extensive hoar, ground frozen hard. Will (Haytor, Devon, 1017 feet asl) --

1800Z 03/01/2009 Max 3.0°C Min -4.3°C Currently -1.2°C Dew Point -4.8°C Pressure 1028.7 hPa Wind N F1 Unbroken sunshine all morning, partly cloudy this afternoon.

Droitwich (Worcs) recorded a low of -6.7C last night - in line with Pershore (-7C) and Birmingham (-6.4C). Grass minimum was -10.8C. Sitll cold with current temperature at 11am at -3.1C (tried washing the car - now need the chesil....) Chris

The first here in 3 years (max -1.1C), and only the second since Jan'03. -- Paul Hyett, Cheltenham (change 'invalid83261' to 'blueyonder' to email me)

Like most of the SE last night very hard frost with overnight min -6.3'C and Grass Min -9.1'C. However did any one see/record any rain. I've heard a few reports of light drizzle/rain yesterday evening to the North of my location and see from some of the reports that Herstmonceux, Odiham and Heathrow reported 'tr'? The rain gauge was dry but I noticed my car this morning had particularly thick...

2045Z: NE05KT SKC 02/M02 Q1030= RMK: SC broke up this morning. Sunny periods pm. Tn -0.5c. Milder than recently Tx 5.0c Phil -- www.layton.me.uk/meteo.htm

Min -4.9°C Grass -7.8°C Max 4.0°C Current 2.8°C a bit of strato-cumulus floating in from the NE. Sunshine today currently 7.32 hours -- Keith (Southend) http://www.southendweather.net e-mail: kreh at southendweather dot net

Reading (Southcote) - Summary for 2008 Mean Maximum 15.1°C Mean Minimum 7.5°C Mean Temperature 11.3°C Highest Maximum 29.3°C on 27th July Lowest Minimum -5.6°C on 17th Feb Lowest Grass Minimum -7.9°C on 17th Feb

There has not been any rainfall in Teignmouth since 0.5mm fell on 16th December and 24.6mm on 13th December. Source Teignmouth Private Weather Station http://www.greatweather.co.uk/teignmouth/past_month.html and Dawlish Weather @ Holcombe http://www.dawlishweather.co.uk/holcombe_dec_08_sum.htm