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