Saturday 23rd April 2011


Meteosat MSG satellite picture from Ferdinand Valk's site at 12.00 UTC
http://www.fvalk.com/images/Day_image/MSG-1200-EUR.jpg

Meteosat MSG-2 satellite picture from Bernard Burton's site at 12.00 UTC
http://www.woksat.info/etctd23m/td23-msg-1200-uk.html

NOAA 19 satellite picture from Bernard Burton's site at 14.00 UTC
http://www.woksat.info/etctd23/td23-1400-b-uk.html


UK min. temps on Friday night http://tinyurl.com/3ho629d

Bournemouth (Hurn) 5.9°C, Yeovilton 5.8°C, Dishforth and Benson 5.7°C,
Redesdale 5.6°C, Leeming and Leconfield 4.8°C, Tain Range 4.3°C, Aboyne
and Topcliffe 3.1°C.

Langdon Bay and St Helier (Jersey) 12.3°C, High Wycombe 12.8°C, Mumbles
12.9°C, Jersey Airport 13.0°C, Prestwick 13.1°C.


UK max. temps on Saturday http://tinyurl.com/42bv3cj

Glen Ogle 9.1°C, Fair Isle 10.4°C, Ballypatrick and Aberporth 10.9°C,
Aberdaron 11.0°C.

Coleshill, Benson and Kenley 25.9°C, Coningsby and Farnborough 26.0°C,
High Wycombe and Andrewsfield 26.3°C, Marham 26.7°C, Northolt and Heathrow
27.4°C, Gravesend 27.5°C.

OGIMET summary http://tinyurl.com/3mdt6wy


Rainfall radar http://www.meteox.com/h.aspx?r=&soort=loop24uur&URL or
http://www.raintoday.co.uk/

Rainfall totals in 24 hours ending 18.00 UTC on Saturday
http://tinyurl.com/3qamcyw

Aboyne, Wick, Strathallan, Lusa (Skye), Glasgow (Bishopton) and Eskdalemuir
4 mm, Aberdeen (Dyce), Drumalbin and Leuchars 5 mm, Edinburgh (Gogarbank)
and Loftus 7 mm, Dundrennan 9 mm.


Location of some UK stations
http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/educatio...r_data_uk.html


Colin Youngs
Brussels

On Sat, 23 Apr 2011 at 23:49:37, Colin Youngs
wrote in uk.sci.weather :

Saturday 23rd April 2011

UK max. temps on Saturday http://tinyurl.com/42bv3cj

Marham 26.7°C, Northolt and Heathrow
27.4°C, Gravesend 27.5°C.

Well I can't quite match these, but I did set a new April record of
26.3C.
--
Paul Hyett, Cheltenham (change 'invalid83261' to 'blueyonder' to email me)

On 2011-04-23 22:49:37 +0100, "Colin Youngs" said:

Saturday 23rd April 2011

UK max. temps on Saturday http://tinyurl.com/42bv3cj

Coleshill, Benson and Kenley 25.9°C, Coningsby and Farnborough 26.0°C,
High Wycombe and Andrewsfield 26.3°C, Marham 26.7°C, Northolt and Heathrow
27.4°C, Gravesend 27.5°C.

Can anyone vouch for the accuracy of 27.8C at Wisley yesterday?

Trevor

On 24/04/2011 07:51, Trevor Harley wrote:

Can anyone vouch for the accuracy of 27.8C at Wisley yesterday?

Trevor


Not apart from my 27.2c just down the road!

Phil
Guildford

"Trevor Harley" wrote in message
news:2011042407515716807-taharley@dundeeacuk...

Can anyone vouch for the accuracy of 27.8C at Wisley yesterday?

Trevor


Any reason not to? Sandy soil, but I do not know whether or not the station
is in an over-sheltered location.

Roger

"Roger Smith" wrote in message
...

"Trevor Harley" wrote in message
news:2011042407515716807-taharley@dundeeacuk...

Can anyone vouch for the accuracy of 27.8C at Wisley yesterday?

Trevor


Any reason not to? Sandy soil, but I do not know whether or not the
station is in an over-sheltered location.

Roger


Also another unusual combination which I have just noticed but not seen
discussed elsewhere or included in extremes reported for Saturday.

Over the sandy soil of Breckland, Norfolk The Met Office listed Santon
Downham Climat station as Coldest night with Min 4.5C, Warmest day, 27.0C
and wettest 20mm for East Anglian region for 24 hours to 2100Z on Saturday.

I was in Thetford that day, with Santon Downham about 4 mi NW. First Cu
developing just NW at 1200 local time, Glaciated Cb and first thunder 1345.
Thunder and lightning continued non stop to 1745. OCNL light rain for about
an hour from 1600 would estimate less than a mm. Throughout the storm there
was brigthess showing beyond the curtain of rain to west and NW and
absoulutely clear sky just to East and beyond. The whole cloud system
showed little overall movement.

NSS

On Apr 25, 9:29*am, "Jennik" wrote:
Over the sandy soil of Breckland, Norfolk The Met Office listed Santon
Downham Climat station as Coldest night *with Min 4.5C, Warmest day, 27..0C
and wettest 20mm for East Anglian region for 24 hours to 2100Z on Saturday.

And 20 miles or so away (from Thetford) in Ely we saw precisely zero
rainfall. Conditions are really arid around here at present. Plenty of
(very unusual) cereal irrigation also going on (potatoes etc yes - not
that unusual, but cereals not so). Saturday max at a well-exposed site
out in the fen measured at 26.7C. I see Lakenheath and Mildenhall were
also showing 27C max on Saturday (though just reading to the nearest
integer degC IIRC).

JGD

On Apr 25, 9:29*am, "Jennik" wrote:
Also *another unusual combination which I have just noticed but not seen
discussed elsewhere or included in extremes reported for Saturday.


There was a post hinting at the extremes from David Mitchell,
Langtoft, Yorkshire Wolds.
"Remarkable day Saturday"
High 26.1C Low 3.5C (range 22.6 degC)
Santon Downham doesn't get the publicity it used to, is that because
of the demise of the Monthly Weather Report that I used to read
avidly?
Another interesting site I used to enjoy looking at was Redhill
airport, long since dropped by the Met O.

Ken
Copley, Teesdale
(13.1hr sun yesterday, max 18.4C min last night 3.1C grass -2.0C,
Lead Mill 19.1C max, 2.0C min)