Meteosat 8 satellite picture from Ferdinand Valk's site at 12.00 UTC
on Friday 11th May
http://www.fvalk.com/images/Day_imag...8-1200-EUR.jpg

NOAA 18 satellite picture from Bernard Burton's site at 12.49 UTC on
Friday 11th May
http://www.woksat.info/etcpe11/pe11-1249-b-uk.html

Meteosat MSG-1 satellite picture from Bernard Burton's site at 12.00
UTC on Friday 11th May
http://www.woksat.info/etcpe11m/pe11-msg-1200-uk.html

Two bands of frontal cloud over Britain with broken convective cloud
between them. Convective cloud developing over Belgium as the front
moves away SE.


UK min. temps on Thursday night http://tinyurl.com/38jsx2

Loch Glascarnoch 3.6°C, Altnaharra 3.4°C, Fair Isle and Leuchars
3.2°C, Inverbervie 2.8°C, Lerwick 2.6°C, Aberdeen 2.4°C, Aviemore
1.6°C, Aboyne 1.3°C, Baltasound 0.8°C.

Ronaldsway and St Mawgan 9.4°C, St Mary's 9.7°C, Guernsey 10.1°C -
06.00 UTC synops only.


UK max. temps on Friday http://tinyurl.com/2pml5h

Wick 7.8°C, Aviemore 8.4°C, Lerwick 8.7°C, Aberdeen 8.8°C - 18..00
UTC synops only.

Cranwell 16.3°C, Coningsby and London MO 16.4°C, Great Malvern and
Marham 16.6°C, Heathrow 16.7°C, Shoeburyness and Manston 16.9°C,
Holbeach 17.2°C, Gravesend 17.5°C.

OGIMET summary http://tinyurl.com/33vlt5


Rainfall radar http://www.meteox.com/h.aspx?r=&soort=loop24uur&URL
or
http://www.meteo24.com/uk/index.php?q=radar

Rain moves SE over southern England on Thursday night. Broken band
of rain from SW Scotland to East Anglia on Friday morning. Further
rain moves NE over England and Wales in the afternoon and evening.

Rainfall totals http://tinyurl.com/3cqemf

Larkhill 16 mm, Sennybridge and Culdrose 17 mm, High Wycombe 18 mm,
Brize Norton 20 mm, Filton, Liscombe and Milford Haven 21 mm, Little
Rissington and Bedford 23 mm, St Athan and Cardinham 25 mm.

Peak gusts - Shoreham 43 kn, Portland 46 kn, Jersey and Guernsey
48 kn.


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


Colin Youngs
Brussels