Meteosat 8 satellite picture from F. Valk's site at 12.00 UTC on Saturday
8th October
http://www.fvalk.com/images/Day_imag...8-1200-EUR.jpg

NOAA 18 VIS satellite picture from Bernard Burton's site at 12.59 UTC on
Saturday 8th October
http://www.btinternet.com/~wokingham...1259-b-uk.html

Eumetsat MSG-1 satellite picture from Bernard Burton's site at 12.00 UTC on
Saturday 8th October
http://www.btinternet.com/~wokingham...g-1200-uk.html

Frontal cloud covers most of England and Wales. Showers heading for
Ireland and Scotland. Patches of low cloud over the Netherlands and broken
cloud over Belgium.


UK min. temps on Friday night
http://www.uni-koeln.de/math-nat-fak...europazoom.gif
or
http://meteocentre.com/analyse/map_m...lang=en&map=uk Blue figures

Scotland 6 to 13°C; Scottish islands 7 to 9°C; Northern England 10 to
14°C; Midlands 12 to 14°C; East Anglia 11 to 13°C; SE England 9 to 15°C;
SW England 11 to 14°C; Wales 11 to 15°C; Northern Ireland 6 to 9°C.

06.00 - Wick 7.5°C, Tiree 7.4°C, Tulloch Bridge 7.1°C, Lusa/Skye 6.9°C,
Altnaharra 6.8°C, Lerwick 6.7°C.

09.00 - Loch Glascarnoch 5.3°C, Castlederg 4.9°C, Lough Fea and Glen
Ogle 4.5°C.

06.00 - St Athan, Shawbury and Guernsey 13.7°C, Coleshill 13.9°C, St
Mary's 14.1°C, Langdon Bay 14.2°C, Solent MRSC 15.4°C.


UK max. temps on Saturday
http://www.uni-koeln.de/math-nat-fak...europazoom.gif

Scotland 9 to 14°C; Northern Isles 8 to 12°C; Western Isles 11 to 13°C;
Northern England 12 to 16°C; Midlands 15 to 19°C; East Anglia 17 to 19°C;
SE England 17 to 20°C; SW England 14 to 17°C; Wales 13 to 16°C; Northern
Ireland 12 to 14°C.

Glen Ogle 7.6°C, Baltasound and Lerwick 9.0°C, Tulloch Bridge 9.8°C, Fair
Isle 10.3°C, Loch Glascarnoch 10.6°C.

Marham 18.7°C, Manston 18.8°C, Redhill 19.0°C, Shoeburyness, Farnborough
and Jersey 19.2°C, London MO 19..6°C, Charlwood 19.7°C, Northolt and
Heathrow 19.9°C.

http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/...yesterday.html


Rainfall radar
http://www.metoffice.com/weather/eur...animation.html
Band of frontal rain crosses England on Saturday afternoon and evening.
Widespread showers move across Ireland and Scotland behind the front.

Loch Glascarnoch, Dundrennan and St Bees Head 11.0 mm, Glasgow Bishopton
11.3 mm, Aultbea 13.0 mm, Lerwick 15.7 mm, Port Ellen on Islay 16.7 mm,
Fair Isle 18 mm, Tulloch Bridge 19.4 mm, Baltasound 20.4 mm, Lusa/Skye
22.2 mm.


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


Colin Youngs
Brussels