Meteosat 8 satellite picture from F. Valk's site at 12.00 UTC on Saturday 3
April
http://www.fvalk.com/images/Day_imag...3-1200-eur.jpg

NOAA 17 VIS satellite pictures from Bernard Burton's site at 11.20 UTC on
Saturday 3 April
http://www.btinternet.com/~wokingham...20-b-uk-n.html
http://www.btinternet.com/~wokingham...20-c-uk-s.html

NOAA 17 VIS satellite picture from Dundee at 11.19 UTC on Saturday 3 April
http://makeashorterlink.com/?O5DA34DE7

NOAA 17 VIS satellite picture from DLR at 11.14 UTC on Saturday 3 April
http://www.dfd.dlr.de/ftp/put/wetter...4031114.uk.jpg

Extensive cloud over Scotland and western Britain but brighter in eastern
England. More frontal cloud approaching from the SW. Broad band of
frontal cloud over Belgium and SW Netherlands.


UK min. temps on Friday night
http://www.medvale.demon.co.uk/weath...s/mn030404.jpg

Scotland 5 to 8°C; Northern Isles 6 to 7°C; Western Isles 7 to 8°C;
Northern England 3 to 9°C; Midlands 4 to 8°C; East Anglia and Southern
England 5 to 9°C.

Bingley 3.9°C, Waddington 3.8°C, Boulmer and Church Fenton 3.7°C,
Wittering 3.5°C, Redesdale 3.3°C, Topcliffe 3.2°C, Cranwell 2.7°C,
Leconfield 2.5°C, Redhill 2.0°C, Copley 1.9°C.

Camborne 8.6°C, Valley and Culdrose 8.7°C, Plymouth and Solent MRSC 9.0°C,
Guernsey 9.1°C, St Mary's 9.3°C.


UK max. temps on Saturday
http://www.medvale.demon.co.uk/weath...s/mx030404.jpg

Scotland 9 to 14°C; Northern Isles 7 to 10°C; Western Isles 10 to 11°C;
Northern England 10 to 15°C; Midlands and East Anglia 13 to 15°C; SE
England 10 to 14°C; SW England 11 to 14°C.

Lerwick 7.2°C, Eskdalemuir 8.8°C, Aberdeen 8.9°C, Wick 9.3°C, Stornoway
9.8°C, Kirkwall 9.9°C, Langdon Bay 10.0°C.

Coleshill 14.6°C, Coltishall 14.8°C, Leeming and Marham 14.9°C.


Rainfall radar http://www.westwind.ch/w_0rad.php United Kingdom -30h ANIM
Rainfall radar stills http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/live/brradar.shtml

Outbreaks of rain in Ireland and western Scotland on Friday night extend
south into northern England and east into much of Scotland early on Saturday
morning. Outbreaks of rain in Wales and western England by midday on
Saturday. Large area of general rain develops over Wales and SW England
late in the afternoon and affects the whole of England and Wales except East
Anglia by mid-evening.

Lough Fea (NI), Castlederg (NI), Bingley and Lake Vyrnwy 10 mm,
Ballypatrick (NI) 11 mm, Glenanne (NI), Capel Curig and Pembrey Sands 12
mm, Belfast Aldergrove 14 mm, Machrihanish and Eskdalemuir 15 mm,
Lusa/Skye 16 mm, Sennybridge 22 mm, Tulloch Bridge 30 mm.


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


Colin Youngs
Brussels