Saturday 31st August 2019


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 satellite picture from Bernard Burton’s site at 12.00 UTC http://www.woksat.info/etcabh31m/abh31-msg-1200-uk.html

MetopC satellite picture from Bernard Burton’s site at 10.06 UTC http://www.woksat.info/etcabh31/abh31-1006-b-uk.html


UK min. temps on Friday night https://tinyurl.com/y6czn5oy

Goudhurst (Kent) 9.2°C, Farnborough, Santon Downham and Farnham (Alice Holt Lodge) 9.1°C, Baltasound and Bournemouth (Hurn) 9.0°C, Writtle (Essex) 8.9°C, Wisley and Frittenden (Kent) 8.8°C, Charlwood 8.6°C.

Valley 16.3°C, Crosby and Mumbles 16.4°C, Carlisle and Pembrey Sands 16.6°C, Walney Island 16.8°C, Porthmadog 17.0°C.


UK max. temps on Saturday https://tinyurl.com/yyeho8j6

Loch Glascarnoch 10.0°C, Lentran (Inverness) 10.6°C, Kirkwall, Kinbrace (Sutherland) and Tain Range 11.3°C, Altnaharra 11.4°C, Cassley (Sutherland) 11.5°C, Elphin (Sutherland) 11.7°C, Wick 12.0°C.

Santon Downham 24.2°C, Weybourne and Cromer 24.3°C, Wattisham and Andrewsfield 24.5°C, Shoeburyness 24.7°C, Heathrow 24.9°C, Charsfield (Suffolk) 25.1°C, Tibenham (Norfolk) 25.3°C, Cavendish (Suffolk) 25.4°C, Manston 26.1°C.

OGIMET summary https://tinyurl.com/y4kn8txh


Rainfall radar http://www.weathercast.co.uk/radar/united-kingdom.html or https://en.meteox.com/en-gb/?fc=0&im...ropa24uurwsg84

UK rainfall totals in 24 hours to 18.00 UTC on Saturday https://tinyurl.com/y2cjgp5a

Glasgow (Bishopton) 28 mm, Altnaharra, Aviemore and Tiree 29 mm, Tain Range and Strathallan 30 mm, Port Ellen (Islay) 33 mm, Elphin (Sutherland) 35 mm, Loch Glascarnoch 39 mm, Kinlochewe 43 mm, Dunstaffnage (Oban) 44 mm, Drumnadrochit 47 mm, Tulloch Bridge 50 mm, Achnagart (Kyle) 66 mm.

Sferics http://en.blitzortung.org/historical_maps.php?map=10
Review – 24 h Loop


Colin Youngs
Brussels

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Colin Youngs writes
UK min. temps on Friday night https://tinyurl.com/y6czn5oy

Goudhurst (Kent) 9.2°C, Farnborough, Santon Downham and Farnham (Alice
Holt Lodge) 9.1°C, Baltasound and Bournemouth (Hurn) 9.0°C, Writtle
(Essex) 8.9°C, Wisley and Frittenden (Kent) 8.8°C, Charlwood 8.6°C.

The Met Office forecast for tonight (Saturday night) for SE England
includes: "A much cooler night than recent ones. Minimum temperature 10
°C."

It's not encouraging if they can't get the immediate past weather right!
--
John Hall
"If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come
sit next to me."
Alice Roosevelt Longworth (1884-1980)

On Saturday, August 31, 2019 at 10:03:12 PM UTC+1, John Hall wrote:

The Met Office forecast for tonight (Saturday night) for SE England
includes: "A much cooler night than recent ones. Minimum temperature 10
°C."

It's not encouraging if they can't get the immediate past weather right!

Good point John. The 10C was not far out. They've mixed up the UK-wide temp difference between the two nights and assumed it applied to the SE. Sat night was rather colder than previous nights in East Anglia and the Thames Valley but the same in SE England. Frittenden in Kent was 9.2C , a chilly rural spot at night, slightly milder. Coldest elsewhere Alice Holt Lodge (Farnham) 8.0C and in East Anglia, the frost hollow of Santon Downham was 5.4C. Below 10C in parts of London - my local site in Teddington was 9.3 instead of 9.4C - but that's on the edge of Bushy Park.

I would imagine your local area around Cranleigh would be chilly on calm, clear nights so a pity there are no local observations.

Julian Mayes
Molesey, Surrey.

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I would imagine your local area around Cranleigh would be chilly on
calm, clear nights so a pity there are no local observations.

Yes, though it's a clay rather than a sandy soil, which might keep
minima up a bit. I'm afraid I'm too idle to set up a station myself. I
do have an old max-min thermometer hanging on a north-facing shed wall,
but I don't look at it very often.

I live on the side of a slight hill, and it's noticeable on many winter
mornings when I go into the village to get my paper that just descending
50 ft or so often makes the difference between no frost and a slight
frost. I think the nearest synoptic station to me is Charlwood, some 8
miles to the east.
--
John Hall
"If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come
sit next to me."
Alice Roosevelt Longworth (1884-1980)