On May 14, 10:18*pm, Colin Youngs
wrote:
Meteosat 8 satellite picture from Ferdinand Valk's site at 12.00 UTC
on Wednesday 14th Mayhttp://www.fvalk.com/images/Day_image/METEOSAT-8-1200-EUR.jpg

NOAA 18 satellite picture from Bernard Burton's site at 12.41 UTC on
Wednesday 14th Mayhttp://www.woksat.info/etcqe14/qe14-1241-b-uk.html

Meteosat MSG-2 satellite picture from Bernard Burton's site at 12.00
UTC on Wednesday 14th Mayhttp://www.woksat.info/etcqe14m/qe14-msg-1200-uk.html

Large parts of the British Isles sunny again but low cloud over NE
England and SE Scotland. * Thundery disturbance moving towards SW
England and some cloud also to the north of London. * Significant
convective cloud developing in eastern Belgium.

UK min. temps on Tuesday night *http://tinyurl.com/4ppjzd

Drumalbin 3.5°C, *Warcop Range 3.3°C, *Lossiemouth 3.2°C, *Glen Ogle
3.0°C, *Tulloch Bridge 2.8°C, *Shap 2.5°C, *Loch Glascarnoch 2..4°C,
Kinloss 2.1°C, *Aviemore 1.5°C, *Tain Range 1.3°C, *Altnaharra -1.3°C.

Solent MRSC 11.5°C, *Mumbles 11.7°C, *Camborne 12.3°C, *St Mary’s and
Culdrose 12.7°C, *Plymouth 12.9°C.

UK max. temps on Wednesday *http://tinyurl.com/3m2nyl

Loftus 9.6°C, *Copley 10.0°C, *Boulmer 10.7°C, *Leuchars 10.9°C,
Inverbervie 11.1°C, *Charterhall 11.3°C.

Castlederg and Chivenor 20.8°C, *Pembrey Sands 20.9°C, *Bracknell
21.0°C, *Gravesend and Shoreham 21.2°C, *Milford Haven and St
Catherine’s Point 21.4°C, *Thorney Island 21.7°C, *Bournemouth
22.3°C, *Solent MRSC 23.6°C.

OGIMET summary *http://tinyurl.com/3s8v6s

Rainfall radar * *http://www.meteox.com/h.aspx?r=&soort=loop24uur&URL
or *http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/uk/radar/

Scattered showers in SW and SE England on Wednesday morning. * Further
showers reach SW England during the afternoon and a line of showers
and thunderstorms lies over much of the south coast during the
evening.

Rainfall totals in 24 hours ending 18.00 UTC on Wednesdayhttp://tinyurl.com/46rwu5

Culdrose and Plymouth 0.4 mm, *Benson 0.6 mm, *Guernsey 6 mm.

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

Colin Youngs
Brussels

Thanks Colin. I always appreciate your summaries! As you say, Solent
the warmest, but the gradual trend towards lower maxes continues, as
this week passes. Will we get a day at the weekend where the UK max
will be below 20C? probably. Back to around average for mid-May by
then. The CET is slipping at 14.9C (Thanks Philip), and that downward
trend wil accelerate, as we are likely to have some significantly
colder air coming courtesy of a low that is developing over the
Baltic. I said a few days ago that temperatures may hold up, keeping
the CET higher, but that's not going to be the case, especially in
Scotland and the North of England. Watch those tender new plants, if
you've been tempted to put in by this fine weather. Frost isn't out of
the question in that set-up in the North. Ne're cast a clout 'til May
is out" and all that.

Still, the very end of May has hints again of some warmer weather, but
at that distance, nothing is certain.

Start of the Devon County Show today and, of course, wet!

Paul