Meteosat 8 satellite picture from Ferdinand Valk's site at 12.00 UTC on
Friday 31st March
http://www.fvalk.com/images/Day_imag...8-1200-EUR.jpg

NOAA 18 VIS satellite picture from DLR at 13.28 UTC on Friday 31st March
http://www.dfd.dlr.de/ftp/put/wetter...3311328.uk.jpg

Band of frontal cloud stretches from an impressive low centre in the
Atlantic across Scotland and the North Sea. Fairly sunny from NW England
to East Anglia with a second area of frontal cloud from Ireland through
Wales to SE England. Rather cloudy in the Low Countries but bright in the
west of the Netherlands.


UK min. temps on Thursday night http://makeashorterlink.com/?Y16C253EC
or
http://www.uni-koeln.de/math-nat-fak...europazoom.gif

06.00 - Spadeadam 3.9°C, Drumalbin 3.8°C, Kirkwall and Copley 3.7°C,
Altnaharra 3.3°C, Aviemore 3.2°C.

09.00 - Loch Glascarnoch 2.9°C, Boltshope Park 2.5°C, Fair Isle 1.6°C,
Glen Ogle 1.1°C, Baltasound 0.6°C, Lerwick 0.2°C.

06.00 - Camborne 9.6°C, Boscombe Down 9.8°C, Coltishall 10.2°C, St
Mary's 10.3°C, Heathrow 10.5°C.


UK max. temps on Friday http://makeashorterlink.com/?K27C363EC or
http://www.uni-koeln.de/math-nat-fak...europazoom.gif

Glen Ogle 3.1°C, Altnaharra 4.4°C, Loch Glascarnoch and Inverbervie 5.1°C,
Aberdeen 5.4°C.

Cranwell, Marham, Church Lawford and Great Malvern 15.5°C, Pershore and
Benson 15.6°C, Weybourne 15.7°C, Northolt 15.8°C, London MO 15.9°C,
Holbeach 16.2°C, Coningsby 17.3°C.

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


Rainfall radar
http://www.metoffice.com/weather/eur...animation.html
Widespread showers move NE over England and into Scotland on Friday
afternoon. Showers merge into an area of rain across central Scotland in
the evening. Heavy rain in Northern Ireland in the late afternoon and
widespread rain in Wales in the evening.

Rainfall totals http://makeashorterlink.com/?H28C153EC

West Freugh 13.0 mm, Carlisle, Capel Curig and Little Rissington 13.4 mm,
Keswick 14.2 mm, Bridlington 15 mm, Brize Norton 15.4 mm, Lough Fea 16.0
mm, Spadeadam 19 mm, Lyneham 21.5 mm, Portglenone 22.0 mm, Ballycastle
22 mm.


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


Colin Youngs
Brussels