Tuesday 18th May 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

Meteosat MSG-2 satellite picture from Bernard Burton's site at 12.00
http://www.woksat.info/etcse18m/se18-msg-1200-uk.html

NOAA 19 satellite picture from Bernard Burton's site at 12.26 UTC
http://www.woksat.info/etcse18/se18-1226-b-uk.html

Convection over Britain – most marked in central and eastern
England. Frontal cloud over Ireland. Scattered shallow convection
and some high cloud over Belgium.


UK min. temps on Monday night http://tinyurl.com/38rln6g

Shap 0.8°C, Aboyne 0.6°C, Eskdalemuir and Woodford 0.3°C, Aviemore
and Capel Curig 0.2°C, Redesdale 0.1°C, Tain Range and Tulloch
Bridge 0.0°C, Loch Glascarnoch -0.2°C, Sennybridge -0.4°C,
Altnaharra -2.3°C.

Camborne and Jersey 8.9°C, Tiree 9.3°C, Belfast Aldergrove and St
Mary’s 9.6°C, St Catherine’s Point 9.7°C.


UK max. temps on Tuesday http://tinyurl.com/2wzuasg

Fair Isle 10.6°C, Baltasound and Lerwick 12.5°C, Dundrennan 12.6°C,
St Bees Head and Langdon Bay 12.9°C.

Aviemore, Linton-on-Ouse and Gravesend 19.2°C, Leuchars and Heathrow
19.3°C, Aboyne 19.4°C, Boscombe Down and Northolt 19.6°C, Lusa
(Skye), Leeming and Pershore 19.7°C, Ballykelly 19.8°C.

OGIMET summary http://tinyurl.com/327fa7s


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

Rain moves into Ireland on Tuesday evening.

Rainfall totals in 24 hours ending 18.00 UTC on Tuesday
http://tinyurl.com/37lgtcg

St Angelo, Topcliffe and Linton-on-Ouse 0.4 mm, Wick 0.6 mm, Copley
0.7 mm, Dishforth 1 mm.


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


Colin Youngs
Brussels