Meteosat 8 satellite picture from Ferdinand Valk's site at 12.00 UTC
on Thursday 24th May
http://www.fvalk.com/images/Day_imag...8-1200-EUR.jpg

NOAA 18 satellite picture from Bernard Burton's site at 12.14 UTC on
Thursday 24th May
http://www.woksat.info/etcpe24/pe24-1214-a-uk.html

Meteosat MSG-1 satellite picture from Bernard Burton's site at 12.00
UTC on Thursday 24th May
http://www.woksat.info/etcpe24m/pe24-msg-1200-uk.html

Extensive cloud over the British Isles - most sunshine in SW and
extreme SE England. Frontal cloud over Scotland and Ireland.
Belgium clear except for some Cu in the SE.


UK min. temps on Wednesday night http://tinyurl.com/ywyzex

Kirkwall 9.1°C, Cardinham 9.0°C, Shoreham 8.9°C, Inverbervie
8.8°C, Aberdeen 8.7°C, Charlwood 8.3°C, Dunkeswell 8.1°C, Fair
Isle 8.0°C, Baltasound 7.2°C, Lerwick 6.8°C.

Coleshill 13.6°C, Heathrow 13.8°C, Waddington 14.6°C, Marham and
Wittering 14.9°C - 06.00 UTC synops only.


UK max. temps on Thursday http://tinyurl.com/2aaj4l

Kirkwall 10.8°C, Lerwick 11.7°C, South Uist 12.3°C, Stornoway and
Wick 12.6°C - 18.00 UTC synops only.

Larkhill and Odiham 23.7°C, Middle Wallop 23.9°C, Bournemouth
24.2°C, Farnborough 24.6°C, Charlwood 24.8°C, Northolt 25.1°C,
Heathrow 25.7°C, London MO 25.9°C, Gravesend 26.0°C.

OGIMET summary http://tinyurl.com/2ap5j5

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

Rain area moves slowly SE over Scotland on Thursday but breaks up into
small patches as it reaches northern England.

Rainfall totals http://tinyurl.com/yurefb

Lerwick, Barra, South Uist, Aberdeen and Glasgow Bishopton 4 mm, Fair
Isle, Tiree and Port Ellen on Islay 5 mm, Stornoway and Kinloss 6
mm, Kirkwall, Wick, Aultbea and Machrihanish 7 mm.

Sferics http://www.wetterzentrale.de/pics/Rsfloc2.gif or
http://www.wetterzentrale.de/topkarten/tkbeoblar.htm May 24th
Intensity


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


Colin Youngs
Brussels