Meteosat 8 satellite picture from Ferdinand Valk's site at 12.00 UTC
on Thursday 17th April
http://www.fvalk.com/images/Day_imag...8-1200-EUR.jpg

NOAA 18 satellite picture from Bernard Burton's site at 12.21 UTC on
Thursday 17th April
http://www.woksat.info/etcqd17/qd17-1221-b-uk.html

Shallow convective cloud over Britain with rather denser cloud over
Wales. Belgium fairly sunny with shallow convective cloud in the
east and west.


UK min. temps on Wednesday night http://tinyurl.com/3ns8r7

Topcliffe -2.0°C, Spadeadam -2.1°C, Tain Range and Lossiemouth
-2.2°C, Aviemore, Eskdalemuir and Redesdale -2.4°C, Shap -2.6°C,
Kinloss -3.6°C, Aboyne -4.0°C.

Mumbles 6.0°C, Plymouth 6.1°C, Camborne 6.4°C, Culdrose 7.0°C,
Portland and St Catherine’s Point 7.2°C, St Mary’s 9.1°C.


UK max. temps on Thursday http://tinyurl.com/3p6y4p

Glen Ogle 4.5°C, Loch Glascarnoch 6.5°C, Lake Vyrnwy and Donna Nook
6.9°C, Copley 7.2°C, Spadeadam 7.4°C, Eskdalemuir 7.5°C.

Crosby, Pembey Sands, Thorney Island and Boscombe Down 11.4°C, West
Freugh and Prestwick 11.5°C, Bracknell 11.6°C, Lusa/Skye and Great
Malvern 11.7°C, Yeovilton 11.8°C, Chivenor 12.2°C, Solent MRSC and
Bournemouth 12.7°C.

OGIMET summary http://tinyurl.com/4qx39m

Rainfall radar http://www.meteox.com/h.aspx?r=&soort=loop24uur&URL
or http://www.meteogroup.co.uk:80/uk/ho...d_kingdom.html

Rainfall totals in 24 hours ending 18.00 UTC on Thursday
http://tinyurl.com/43fysd

Copley and Knaresborough Scotton 2.0 mm, Spadeadam 2 mm, Loftus,
Holbeach, Scampton and Nottingham Watnall 3 mm, Weybourne 4 mm,
Albemarle 6 mm, Cranwell and Wainfleet 10 mm.


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


Colin Youngs
Brussels