NOAA 16 VIS satellite picture from Bernard Burton's site at 14.05 UTC on
Thursday 5 August
http://www.btinternet.com/~wokingham...1405-b-uk.html

NOAA 17 VIS satellite picture from Dundee at 11.01 UTC on Thursday 5 August
http://makeashorterlink.com/?H2D121BF8

NOAA 17 VIS satellite picture from DLR at 10.55 UTC on Thursday 5 August
http://www.dfd.dlr.de/ftp/put/wetter...8051055.uk.jpg

Broken cloud over Scotland and northern England. Thunderstorms developing
in southern England in the later picture. Western Belgium and much of the
Dutch west coast are cloudy but elsewhere in the Low Countries it is sunny
again.


UK min. temps on Wednesday night
http://www.medvale.demon.co.uk/weath...s/mn050804.jpg

Scotland 11 to 16°C; Northern Isles 11 to 13°C; Western Isles 11 to 15°C;
Northern England and East Anglia 14 to 17°C; Midlands and Wales 13 to
16°C; SE England 14 to 18°C; SW England 10 to 15°C; Northern Ireland 10
to 14°C.

Cardinham 11.6°C, Wick 11.5°C, Kirkwall 11.2°C, Culdrose 11.1°C,
Lusa/Skye 10.8°C, Fair Isle and Aultbea 10.3°C, Dunkeswell and Liscombe
10.2°C, Castlederg (NI) 9.6°C.

Ronaldsway 15.9°C, Manchester and Waddington 15.8°C, Coltishall 16.0°C,
Brize Norton 16.4°C, Langdon Bay 16.5°C, Herstmonceux 17°C, Solent MRSC
17.1°C, Heathrow 18.8°C.


UK max. temps on Thursday
http://www.medvale.demon.co.uk/weath...s/mx050804.jpg

Scotland 15 to 25°C; Northern Isles 17 to 20°C; Western Isles 15 to 23°C;
Northern England 18 to 25°C; Midlands 24 to 27°C; East Anglia and SW
England 20 to 27°C; SE England 24 to 29°C; Wales 20 to 24°C; Northern
Ireland 18 to 23°C.

Leuchars 16.2°C, Wick 17.1°C, Kirkwall 17.7°C, Lerwick 18°C, Ronaldsway
18.1°C, Bridlington 18.7°C, Boulmer 18.8°C, Kinloss 19.0°C.

Church Lawford and Redhill 27.4°C, Middle Wallop 27.5°C, Yeovilton 27.6°C,
Odiham and Herstmonceux 28.2°C, London MO 28.3°C, Bedford 28.6°C,
Northolt 28.9°C, Charlwood 29.0°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

A few showers in central Scotland early on Wednesday night and a few in NW
England towards midday on Thursday. Two areas of thunderstorms develop in
southern England by mid-afternoon - one moving north into the west Midlands
and eventually northern England and the south of Scotland. Area of rain in
the extreme SE of England and East Anglia.

http://imkpc3.physik.uni-karlsruhe.de/pics/Rsfloc3.gif or
http://www.wetterzentrale.de/topkarten/tkbeoblar.htm August 5 Intensity

Thunderstorms move from southern England into the Midlands and NW England
and SW Scotland during Thursday afternoon and evening.

Rhyl, Lake Vyrnwy and Portland 4 mm, Church Lawford 5 mm, Charlwood 7 mm,
High Wycombe 8 mm, Shawbury 9 mm, Heathrow 16 mm, Pershore 22 mm, Great
Malvern 25 mm.


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


Colin Youngs
Brussels