Meteosat 8 satellite picture from Ferdinand Valk's site at 12.00 UTC on
Friday 28th April
http://www.fvalk.com/images/Day_imag...8-1200-EUR.jpg

NOAA 18 VIS satellite picture from Bernard Burton's site at 13.52 UTC on
Friday 28th April
http://www.btinternet.com/~wokingham...1352-b-uk.html

Meteosat MSG-1 satellite picture from Bernard Burton's site at 12.00 UTC on
Friday 28th April
http://www.btinternet.com/~wokingham...g-1200-uk.html

Sunny in Ireland except by the north coast. Low cloud extends over north
and east Scotland into northern England. Quite sunny in Wales and the
Midlands but convective cloud in central southern and SW England. Still
sunny in the southern half of Belgium but rather cloudy further north and in
the Netherlands.


UK min. temps on Thursday night http://makeashorterlink.com/?M24B1380D
or
http://www.uni-koeln.de/math-nat-fak...europazoom.gif

06.00 - Wick 1.4°C, Shap 1.3°C, Prestwick 1.2°C, Aviemore and Redesdale
0.9°C.

09.00 - Baltasound 0.3°C, Eskdalemuir 0.2°C, Aboyne -0.4°C,
Strathallan -0.5°C, Saughall -1.1°C, Tulloch Bridge -2.3°C.

06.00 - Ronaldsway 7.6°C, St Athan and Waddington 8.2°C, Guernsey 8.7°C,
St Mary's 9.1°C.


UK max. temps on Friday http://makeashorterlink.com/?P35B2680D or
http://www.uni-koeln.de/math-nat-fak...europazoom.gif

Loftus 8.7°C, Rosehearty 9.3°C, Donna Nook 9.5°C, Ballypatrick 9.6°C,
Weybourne 9.7°C.

Edinburgh Gogarbank 16.1°C, Strathallan, Mumbles and Chivenor 16.2°C,
Pembrey Sands 16.3°C, Great Malvern 16.4°C, Solent MRSC 16.9°C, Cardiff
MO and Plymouth 17.7°C.

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


Rainfall radar
http://www.metoffice.com/weather/eur...animation.html
Except for odd light showers on the east coast of Scotland on Friday
afternoon the radar shows no rainfall.

Rainfall totals http://makeashorterlink.com/?M56B4180D Rosehearty 0.4
mm, Fair Isle 2 mm


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


Colin Youngs
Brussels