Meteosat 8 satellite picture from F. Valk's site at 12.00 UTC on Thursday 24
March
http://www.fvalk.com/images/Day_imag...4-1200-eur.jpg

NOAA 12 VIS satellite picture from Bernard Burton's site at 16.15 UTC on
Thursday 24 March
http://www.btinternet.com/~wokingham...1615-b-uk.html

NOAA 16 VIS satellite picture from Dundee at 13.34 UTC on Thursday 24 March
http://makeashorterlink.com/?V25561EBA

NOAA 17 VIS satellite picture from DLR at 11.30 UTC on Thursday 24 March
http://www.dfd.dlr.de/ftp/put/wetter...3241130.uk.jpg

Front lies down the eastern side of Britain and across Belgium and eastern
France. Broken cloud behind it in western Britain with showers starting to
appear in Wales and SW England. Sunny ahead of the front in the northern
half of the Netherlands.


UK min. temps on Wednesday night
http://www.uni-koeln.de/math-nat-fak...europazoom.gif
or
http://meteocentre.com/analyse/map_m...lang=en&map=uk (blue
figures)

Scotland 2 to 10°C; Northern Isles 4 to 10°C; Northern Ireland, Western
Isles and Southern England 8 to 10°C; Northern England and the Midlands 5
to 10°C; East Anglia 5 to 9°C; Wales 7 to 10°C.

Kirkwall and Redesdale 5.1°C, Lerwick, Leconfield, Coltishall and Cranwell
4.9°C, Aboyne 4.8°C, Loch Glascarnoch 4.0°C, Altnaharra 2.1°C.

Culdrose 9.8°C, South Uist 9.9°C, Camborne 10.0°C, Edinburgh Gogarbank
10°C, Prestwick 10.1°C, St Mary's 10.2°C.


UK max. temps on Thursday
http://www.uni-koeln.de/math-nat-fak...europazoom.gif

Scotland 9 to 17°C; Northern Isles 9 to °C; Western Isles 12 to 16°C;
Northern England 10 to 17°C; Midlands 14 to 17°C; East Anglia 13 to 15°C;
SE England 12 to 17°C; SW England 11 to 14°C; Wales 11 to 16°C; Northern
Ireland 12 to 15°C.

Lerwick, Fair Isle and Inverbervie 8.7°C, Wick 9.2°C, Glen Ogle 9.4°C,
Boulmer 9.8°C.

Shawbury and Hereford 16.7°C, Kinloss, Carlisle, Coleshill and Northolt
16.9°C, Great Malvern and London MO 17.0°C, Crosby 17.4°C, Hawarden
17.5°C.

http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/...yesterday.html


Rainfall radar http://www.westwind.ch/w_0rad.php United Kingdom -30h ANIM

Band of rain moves across Britain on Wednesday night - heavy with thunder in
SW England early in the night but lighter and more sporadic in the east
later. Rain band crosses eastern England and NE Scotland during Thursday
morning. Line of showers moves NE over SW England and Wales and then into
NW England in the afternoon.

Pembrey Sands 7.6 mm, West Freugh and Bournemouth 7.8 mm, St Mawgan 8.1
mm, Shawbury 8.5 mm, Boscombe Down 8.8 mm, Mumbles 8.9 mm, Chivenor 9.8
mm, Larkhill 10.0 mm, Milford Haven 15.1 mm.


Location of some UK stations
http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/education/data/ukobs.html


Colin Youngs
Brussels