Meteosat 8 satellite picture from F. Valk's site at 09.00 UTC on Sunday 2
May
http://www.fvalk.com/images/Day_imag...2-0900-eur.jpg

NOAA 16 VIS satellite picture from Bernard Burton's site at 13.46 UTC on
Sunday 2 May
http://www.btinternet.com/~wokingham...1346-c-uk.html

NOAA 17 VIS satellite picture from Dundee at 12.01 UTC on Sunday 2 May
http://makeashorterlink.com/?K13C22038

NOAA 17 VIS satellite picture from DLR at 11.55 UTC on Sunday 2 May
http://www.dfd.dlr.de/ftp/put/wetter...5021155.uk.jpg

Frontal cloud across the northern half of Scotland and the north of Ireland.
Quite sunny over England and Wales with some patchy cloud over Wales and the
Midlands in particular. Some cloud across central Belgium but fairly sunny
there otherwise. Extensive high and medium-level cloud over the
Netherlands.

Only SYNOPs available again tonight.


UK min. temps on Saturday night
http://www.uni-koeln.de/math-nat-fak...europazoom.gif

Scotland 1 to 8°C; Northern Isles 7 to 8°C; Western Isles 6 to 9°C;
Northern England and Northern Ireland 3 to 8°C; Midlands and East Anglia 5
to 9°C; Wales 6 to 10°C; Southern England 2 to 9°C.

Leeming 3.0°C, Copley 2.6°C, Boulmer and Dunkeswell 2.4°C, Boscombe Down
2.0°C, Eskdalemuir 1.2°C.

Coltishall 8.6°C, South Uist 8.9°C, St Mary's 9.1°C, Guernsey 9.2°C,
Coleshill 9.3°C, Brize Norton 9.9°C.


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

Scotland 10 to 17°C; Scottish islands 10 to 12°C; Northern England 13 to
20°C; Midlands and East Anglia 16 to 19°C; SE England 16 to 20°C; SW
England 13 to 17°C; Wales 13 to 16°C; Northern Ireland 10 to 14°C.

Lerwick 10.1°C, South Uist 10.3°C, Kirkwall 10.8°C, Tiree 10.9°C,
Stornoway and Machrihanish 12.0°C.

Boscombe Down 18.2°C, Waddington 18.3°C, Copley (!) and Watnall 18.8°C,
Heathrow 19.0°C, Coleshill 19.1°C, Leeming 19.6°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

Showers in NW Scotland on Sunday afternoon and evening - Fair Isle and
Loch Glascarnoch 2 mm, Aultbea and Wainfleet 3 mm.


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


Colin Youngs
Brussels