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

NOAA 17 VIS satellite picture from Bernard Burton's site at 11.07 UTC on
Thursday 8 April
http://www.btinternet.com/~wokingham...1107-b-uk.html

NOAA 17 VIS satellite picture from Dundee at 11.06 UTC on Thursday 8 April
http://makeashorterlink.com/?Q441329F7

NOAA 17 VIS satellite picture from DLR at 11.00 UTC on Thursday 8 April
http://www.dfd.dlr.de/ftp/put/wetter...4081100.uk.jpg

Extensive convective cloud over England. Front moving into Ireland and NW
Scotland. Showers developing over the Low Countries.


UK min. temps on Wednesday night
http://www.medvale.demon.co.uk/weath...s/mn080404.jpg

Scotland and Northern England -1 to 5°C; Northern Isles and Midlands 1 to
4°C; Western Isles 0 to 6°C; East Anglia 2 to 6°C; SE England 0 to 5°C;
SW England 0 to 6°C.

Port Ellen on Islay -0.2°C, Leuchars -0.4°C, Eskdalemuir, Strathallan and
Trawsgoed -0.6°C, Yeovilton -0.7°C, Benson -0.9°C, Sennybridge -1.1°C,
Redesdale -1.2°C, Spadeadam -1.4°C.

Bridlington and Aberporth 4.7°C, Guernsey 4.9°C, Coltishall 5.1°C, South
Uist 5.5°C, Camborne 6.2°C, St Mary's 7.4°C.


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

Scotland 7 to 12°C; Northern Isles 8 to 10°C; Western Isles and SW England
9 to 11°C; Northern England and the Midlands 7 to 10°C; East Anglia 7 to
9°C; SE England 8 to 13°C.

Boulmer 7.7°C, Aberporth 7.8°C, Wattisham 7.9°C, Copley 8.1°C, Lerwick
and Bridlington 8.2°C.

Leuchars, Plymouth and Heathrow 10.6°C, Culdrose and Brize Norton 10.8°C,
Kinloss 11.6°C, Altnaharra, Lossiemouth and Thorney Island 12°C, Solent
MRSC 12.5°C, Tain Range 13°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

A few showers near the east coast on Wednesday night. Showers develop in
eastern and southern England on Thursday afternoon but become confined to
the SE and south coast by evening. Some frontal rain reaches western
Ireland and NW Ireland by mid-afternoon and moves slowly SE.

Lusa/Skye, Cardiff WC and Wattisham 4 mm, Wick and Bridlington 5 mm,
Kirkwall and Shawbury 6 mm.


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


Colin Youngs
Brussels