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Meteosat 8 satellite picture from Ferdinand Valk's site at 12.00 UTC on Thursday 30th March http://www.fvalk.com/images/Day_image/METEOSAT-8-1200-EUR.jpg NOAA 18 VIS satellite picture from Bernard Burton's site at 12.16 UTC on Thursday 30th March http://www.btinternet.com/~wokingham.weather/etc30/oc30-1347-b-uk.html Meteosat MSG-1 satellite picture from Bernard Burton's site at 12.00 UTC...

Today's max +12.8 deg. C Today's precip (so far) 3.2mm (122.6mm so far for the month) Current 22:50 Temp +10.9 deg. C DP +9.0 deg. C RH 88% Wind WSW 05KT gust 17KT Pressure 999.9 (rising slowly)

Brussels on Thursday 30th March Overnight rain stopped soon after dawn. Cloudy with a brisk SW wind during the day. Some breaks in the cloud just before dusk but intermittent light rain from mid-evening. Brussels Uccle 14.7°C - overnight minimum 9.0°C - and 6 mm rain. Brussels Airport 14.7°C - overnight minimum 8.2°C - and 6 mm. Graph ...

Another ghastly day today courtesy of easterly winds. Light rain and drizzle fell almost continuously from 6:30am to 6:30pm. 8.6mm in total. Monthly total now 118.2mm. Such a high rain total has, in the Aberdeen area, been reached in only four other Marches during the past 150 years :- 1876, 1883, 1909 and 1958. More rain is forecast for tomorrow. Also another cold day with a max of only 5.9C....

Last night the mean min was -0.0, now stands at 0.2. The monthly 10 minute mean is now 3.2, Dec was 3.5, Jan 3.5 and Feb 3.3. Just what you need at the end of the month, mild days to spoil the figures! I noted the means on 23rd, a week ago, mean min -1.4, Mean max 5.0, 10 min mean 1.6 ie they have all risen by 1.6c in a week. -- David Mitchell, 70m amsl, Langtoft, East Riding of Yorkshire.

Light rain. A very light covering of fresh snow visible above c.600 metres. Patches of old snow visible above c.550 metres. At 08:00z:- 8/8 Sc/As. Temperature, 4.7°C rising from a low of 3.5°C at 03:30z. Dew point, 4.7°C.

What an incredible experience! http://www.digitalsky.org.uk/solar/tse-20060329/tse.html -- Pete http://www.digitalsky.org.uk

30 March 2006 Wokingham 0900z 220 12/26kt 18km 1Cu015 5Sc020 7Sc050 +12.7/+9.4 QFF 998.7 RMK Cu fra/hum. Little overall change in conditions in past 3 hr. (09-09) Max 14.0 Min 8.7 Grass min 6.7 Rain 5.4 Sun (00-24) 2.4

I see with the gradient wind running more or less parallel with the north Cornwall coast, and a humid unstable airstream, a line of showers has formed along the convergence line just inland of the north coast, from near Padstow to Exmoor. This is such a regular occurence from now until early autumn, I think it should be called the Boscastle Line, after a ceratin 2004 event. Graham Penzance

29 Mar 2006 Wokingham 0900z 220 12/26kt 18km 1Cu015 5Sc020 7Sc050 +12.7/+9.4 QFF 998.7 RMK Cu fra/hum. Little overall change in conditions in past 3 hr. (09-09) Max 14.0 Min 8.7 Grass min 6.7 Rain 5.4 Sun (00-24) 2.4 --

It might have felt bloody cold, but the temperature hasn't dropped below freezing here since the 19th! -- Paul Hyett, Cheltenham

Here is a summary of the latest NWP output for noon on Monday. Issued 0535z, 30 Mar 06. The runs are mixed today, with GFS keen to bring some very unsettled weather over the UK. The others show a col or a ridge to the west with more settled weather as a result. As ever, more runs are needed. ECMWF: http://217.160.75.104/pics/Recm1201.gif A mixture of northerlies and NW'lies covers the UK,...

Chalfont St Giles - Thursday 30th March 2006 -------------------------------------------------------------- 0530z SW F3-4 10km 6St008 8Sc015 10.6/09.0 995 RMK: A "soft" morning after a wet night Norman. (delete "thisbit" twice to e-mail) --

Guildford 30/03/06 5:18Z Temp 10.2°C Dewpt 9.1°C Baro 996.2mb Rising Slowly Rain 1.5mm Yesterday's Rain 6.6mm Wind SW F3 BKN010 Rain after 21Z, mod/heavy stopped by 03Z. Phil

here are some cool images snowflakes. also the home page has linds to three or four pages full of snowflake images see: http://www.sciencephotography.com/imagesfs/images2006.html see also: http://www.sciencephotography.com/cgi-bin/emAlbum.cgi?cmd=show_thumbs&path=snowflakes_03_04

Good afternoon from a pretty dark Athens. A couple of minutes after the solar eclipse reached its maximum in Athens and the online records of temperature and, mainly, solar radiation are remarkable. Solar radiation and temperature at Zografou, E. Athens http://www.meteo.ntua.gr/e/chart/solarradiation http://www.meteo.ntua.gr/e/chart/temperature

to the fine, warm weather that was predicted for this week. I was confidently telling everyone last week that it it could reach 15c under cloudless skiies in the South East by Wednesday this week.