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Old March 15th 09, 08:57 PM posted to uk.sci.weather
Colin Youngs[_2_] Colin Youngs[_2_] is offline
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Default Fairly warm spring day in England: London MO 15.6°C

Meteosat 8 satellite picture from Ferdinand Falk's site at 12.00 UTC on
Sunday 15th March
http://www.fvalk.com/images/Day_imag...8-1200-EUR.jpg

Meteosat MSG-2 satellite picture from Bernard Burton's site at 12.00 UTC on
Sunday 15th March http://www.woksat.info/etcrc15m/rc15-msg-1200-uk.html

NOAA 18 satellite picture from Bernard Burton's site at 13.02 UTC on Sunday
15th March http://www.woksat.info/etcrc15/rc15-1302-b-uk.html

Quite sunny in much of England and Wales - high cloud over Wales and from
the Midlands northwards. Frontal cloud over Scotland. Shallow convection
over Belgium but clear near the coast.


UK min. temps on Saturday night http://tinyurl.com/cew529

Dishforth and Liscombe 1.4°C, Sennybridge 1.1°C, Farnborough 1.0°C,
Trawsgoed 0.9°C, Dunkeswell and Marham 0.8°C, Yeovilton 0.7°C,
Bournemouth (Hurn) -0.9°C, Benson -1.1°C.

Hawarden 7.9°C, Tiree and South Uist 8.2°C, Machrihanish 8.3°C.


UK max. temps on Sunday http://tinyurl.com/crxna2

Glen Ogle 6.4°C, Loch Glascarnoch 8.8°C, Tulloch Bridge and St Bees Head
9.0°C.

Pershore and Boscombe Down 14.6°C, Leeming and Linton-on-Ouse 14.8°C,
Bournemouth (Hurn) 15.0°C, Charlwood and Gravesend 15.1°C, Plymouth and
Heathrow 15.3°C, Herstmonceux 15.5°C, London MO 15.6°C.

OGIMET summary http://tinyurl.com/dg88n6


Rainfall radar http://www.meteox.com/h.aspx?r=&soort=loop24uur&URL or
http://www.raintoday.co.uk/

Some outbreaks of rain over Ireland and NW Scotland on Sunday.

Rainfall totals in 24 hours ending 18.00 UTC on Sunday
http://tinyurl.com/c9gk89

South Uist, Aultbea and St Mary's (Scilly) 0.4 mm, Baltasound and Wick 0.6
mm, Lerwick 1.0 mm, Fair Isle, Kirkwall and Stornoway 2 mm, Loch
Glascarnoch and Lusa (Skye) 3 mm.


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


Colin Youngs
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