Saturday 24th April 2010


Meteosat 8 satellite picture from Ferdinand Valk's site at 12.00 UTC
http://www.fvalk.com/images/Day_image/MSG-1200-EUR.jpg

NOAA 19 satellite picture from DLR at 13.37 UTC
ftp://taurus.caf.dlr.de/put/wetterbilder/UK/image1.jpg

Sunny over England and Wales but extensive high cloud. Broken cloud over
Scotland. Large area of anticyclonic clear skies over continental Europe.


UK min. temps on Friday night http://tinyurl.com/36um7yr

Yeovilton -0.3°C, Shobdon and Farnborough -0.4°C, Benson -0.7°C, Pembrey
Sands -0.9°C, Sennybridge and Hereford -1.2°C, Trawsgoed -1.4°C,
Bournemouth (Hurn) -1.9°C, Exeter -3.3°C, Baltasound -3.5°C.

Ballypatrick, Machrihanish and Aberdaron 7.6°C, Ballykelly 8.6°C, St
Mary's 9.3°C.


UK max. temps on Saturday http://tinyurl.com/32s3oqa

Lerwick 6.0°C, Baltasound 6.9°C, Fair Isle 7.1°C, Inverbervie 8.2°C.

Boscombe Down and Jersey 19.8°C, Benson and Brize Norton 19.9°C, Hereford
20.0°C, Coleshill 20.1°C, Pershore 20.4°C, Heathrow 20.6°C, Northolt
20.9°C, Charlwood 21.1°C, St James Park 21.3°C.

OGIMET summary http://tinyurl.com/32zws3a


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

Outbreaks of rain in northern Scotland on Saturday morning die out to leave
just a few showers later.

Rainfall totals in 24 hours ending 18.00 UTC on Saturday
http://tinyurl.com/35ublh9

Wick, Aultbea, Kinloss and Inverbervie 4 mm, Aviemore, Tain Range and
Leuchars 5 mm, Kirkwall, Loch Glascarnoch, Altnaharra and South Uist 6 mm,
Stornoway 10 mm.


Location of some UK stations
http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/educatio...r_data_uk.html


Colin Youngs
Brussels