Meteosat 8 satellite picture from Ferdinand Valk's site at 12.00 UTC on
Wednesday 26th April
http://www.fvalk.com/images/Day_imag...8-1200-EUR.jpg

NOAA 18 VIS satellite picture from Bernard Burton's site at 12.32 UTC on
Wednesday 26th April
http://www.btinternet.com/~wokingham...1232-b-uk.html

Meteosat MSG-1 satellite picture from Bernard Burton's site at 12.00 UTC on
Wednesday 26th April
http://www.btinternet.com/~wokingham...g-1200-uk.html

Areas of cloud over Ireland and England and Wales. Quite sunny in SW
England, south Wales and around the Irish Sea. Showers in northern
Scotland. Much of the Low Countries cloudy but bright in the west of the
Netherlands and extreme NW Belgium.


UK min. temps on Tuesday night http://makeashorterlink.com/?H25E2150D or
http://www.uni-koeln.de/math-nat-fak...europazoom.gif

06.00 - Stornoway 4.1°C, Little Rissington 4.0°C, Lossiemouth 3.9°C,
Aviemore 3.8°C, Wick 3.0°C.

09.00 - Church Lawford 3.6°C, Fair Isle 3.5°C, Fylingdales 3.2°C, Loch
Glascarnoch 2.9°C, Glen Ogle 2.2°C.

06.00 - Camborne 9.6°C, Culdrose 9.7°C, St Mawgan and Guernsey 10.0°C,
Solent MRSC 10.1°C, St Mary's 10.3°C.


UK max. temps on Wednesday http://makeashorterlink.com/?Y26E3150D or
http://www.uni-koeln.de/math-nat-fak...europazoom.gif

Glen Ogle 7.1°C, Lerwick 9.0°C, Fair Isle 9.3°C, Loch Glascarnoch 9.8°C,
Ballypatrick 10.4°C.

Charlwood 16.4°C, Bridlington and Heathrow 16.5°C, Great Malvern,
Bournemouth and Shoreham 16.9°C, Farnborough 17.0°C, Thorney Island
17.4°C, Herstmonceux 18.5°C, Solent MRSC 18.7°C.

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


Rainfall radar
http://www.metoffice.com/weather/eur...animation.html
Some showers in Scotland and Ireland on Wednesday afternoon and evening.

Rainfall totals http://makeashorterlink.com/?X28E3550D

Tiree 2.7 mm, Wick 2.8 mm, Lerwick 3.1 mm, Barra 3.4 mm, Fair Isle 4 mm,
Altnaharra 4.4 mm, Lusa/Skye 5.7 mm, Tulloch Bridge 6.8 mm, Aultbea 7.0
mm, Stornoway 7.7 mm, Loch Glascarnoch 12.0 mm.


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


Colin Youngs
Brussels

On Wed, 26 Apr 2006 23:07:51 +0200, "Colin Youngs"
wrote:

UK max. temps on Wednesday http://makeashorterlink.com/?Y26E3150D or
http://www.uni-koeln.de/math-nat-fak...europazoom.gif

Glen Ogle 7.1°C, Lerwick 9.0°C, Fair Isle 9.3°C, Loch Glascarnoch 9.8°C,
Ballypatrick 10.4°C.

Charlwood 16.4°C, Bridlington and Heathrow 16.5°C, Great Malvern,
Bournemouth and Shoreham 16.9°C, Farnborough 17.0°C, Thorney Island
17.4°C, Herstmonceux 18.5°C, Solent MRSC 18.7°C.

I was visiting my daughter in Lee-on-Solent between 4 and 5pm BST and
it certainly was a beautifully warm late afternoon that felt just like
a pleasant summer's day. We discussed how this was "perfect" weather -
any warmer would have felt uncomfortable in T shirts!

The met office obs page for Solent confirms that the max probably
coincided with my visit, about 16Z, 17 BST, and a gentle W. breeze.
Two hours later, the essentially offshore (from the New Forest) wind
had increased and backed to a SW onshore wind from the Solent and
Channel, accompanied by a sharp temperature drop from nearly 19 deg C
to 13 deg C.

Sudden local variations like this are fascinating and it's one reason
why I like it near the coast (apart from lack of snow!). My own daily
max, 5 miles inland was 18.3 degrees.

--
Dave
Fareham (West)