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UK WeatherAlert coming in 2010 - See the demo (in french)
Current local time in UK - 06:01 (06:01 UTC)
Sunrise (06:12) and Sunset (18:12) for Reading

Data archive
Analysis and Observation data
- Surface analyses : Europe UK (South Centre North) France Netherlands N.Atlantic N.Europe
- Upper air analyses : 1000 hPa Th'w 850 hPa (Th'w) 700 hPa (RH) 500 hPa 300 hPa 250 hPa
- Frontal analyses (00 06 12 18 UTC) and GEM model analyses (00 06 12 18 UTC and last 7d)
- Precip. accumulation: Europe UK Tmin/Tmax: Europe UK Snow: Europe UK and UK daily summary
- SIGWX: Surface observation (00 06 12 18 UTC) and Aviation (00 06 12 18 UTC)
- Soundings: UK Composite and CAPE
  - Hertsmonceux: Skew-T Hodograph Text
  - Camborne: Skew-T Hodograph Text
  - Nottingham: Skew-T Hodograph Text
- Surface observations: UK stations and Met Office's summary
  - Reading: temperature & humidity wind precipitation pressure and sunshine
  - nearby: Benson Brize Norton Odiham Farnborough Heathrow London Northolt
- European severe convective weather reports and Air quality: UK London and Europe
- Webcams: Reading London (Olympic Park Heathrow) Exeter Dan's UK map BBC
Radar, Satellite and Lightning images
- Radar composite: Europe (Meteox) and UK (Met Office Meteogroup WxOnline)
- UK regional radar: Reading (img anim) England-East (img anim) and England-West (img anim)
- Chilbolton vertical cloud radar (reflectivity vertical motion)
- Satellite: Europe IR (img anim) VIS (img anim) WV (img anim)
- Satellite: UK IR (img anim) VIS (img anim) MODIS high-res
- Lightning: Europe (img anim) UK (img anim) France (img anim) Meteox
Numerical forecast models
- Extra-Tropical cyclone automated tracking
- Models comparison: 00Z 12Z
- GEM-GLB model (UK and France close-ups)
  - 00Z: mslp+z500 (img anim panl) +prcp (img anim panl) UK meteograms
  - 12Z: mslp+z500 (img anim panl) +prcp (img anim panl) UK meteograms
- GFS model
  - 00Z: mslp+z500 (img anim panl) +prcp (img anim panl) UK meteograms
  - 06Z: mslp+z500 (img anim panl) +prcp (img anim panl) UK meteograms
  - 12Z: mslp+z500 (img anim panl) +prcp (img anim panl) UK meteograms
  - 18Z: mslp+z500 (img anim panl) +prcp (img anim panl) UK meteograms
- UKMET model
  - 00Z: mslp+z500 (img anim panl) +prcp (img anim panl) UK meteograms
  - 12Z: mslp+z500 (img anim panl) +prcp (img anim panl) UK meteograms
- ECMWF model
  - 00Z: mslp+z500 (img anim panl) UK meteograms
  - 12Z: mslp+z500 (img anim panl) UK meteograms
- T850 Reading comparison GFS GEM UKMET ECMWF: 00Z 12Z
- T850 Ensemble Reading: GFS: (00Z 06Z 12Z 18Z) GEM(00Z 12Z) GEM/GFS(00Z 12Z)
- Dionysos diagnostics: GEM and GFS (free registration)
Public forecasts and warnings
- Met Office UK forecasts
  - Area forecast: London & SE South West East East Midlands West Midlands
    Wales North West York & Humber North East Northern Ireland
    SW Scotlands Strathclyde Tayside Grampian Highlands Shetlands
  - City forecast: Reading London Dover Portsmouth Norwich Exeter Newquay Cardiff
    Belfast Hull Liverpool Newcastle Aberdeen Glasgow Stornoway Lerwick
- Weather warnings: SE England UK and Europe
- UK flood warnings
- European convective weather forecast
Weather and climate monitoring
- World weather news
- Monthly climatological summaries for selected weather stations: UK and France
- Met Office UK climate maps and summaries
- W.Europe temperature (30d 90d 1yr) and precipitation (30d 90d 1yr)
- NOAA-CPC European climate maps
- NAO (observed and forecasts 3-month running mean) and ENSO (map time series)
A selection of meteorology websites
- UQAM: Dionysos MDCR
- Associations: AMS CMOS EMS RMetS
- Climate: NOAA (CDC CPC NCDC)
- Convective weather: ESSL NOAA (SPC NSSL) Estofex Keraunos
- Education: COMET-MetEd EUMETCAL
- Personal: Wetterzentrale UKweatherworld Forum Bruge Muehr Westwind GreatWeather XCWeather
- Companies: Meteogroup Netweather Weather Online Meteoblue AccuWeather Unisys
- National centres: Met Office Environment Canada ECMWF MétéoFrance and NCEP
- SST, Sea ice and Snow: NSIDC CIS NOAA
- Tropical weather: NHC Canadian Centre Unisys Wunderground CMISS NRL
- University: Cologne Reading Wisconsin Wyoming NCAR

Email contact
Jean-Francois Caron and Christian Pagé / reading-@-meteocentre.com
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Online since August 2009

Last update : 14 March 2010

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