Meteosat 8 satellite picture from Ferdinand Valk's site at 12.00 UTC on
Thursday 27th April
http://www.fvalk.com/images/Day_imag...8-1200-EUR.jpg

NOAA 18 VIS satellite picture from Bernard Burton's site at 14.01 UTC on
Thursday 27th April
http://www.btinternet.com/~wokingham...1401-b-uk.html

Meteosat MSG-1 satellite picture from Bernard Burton's site at 12.00 UTC on
Thursday 27th April
http://www.btinternet.com/~wokingham...g-1200-uk.html

Mostly cloudy in Scotland. Broken cloud in east Wales and the Midlands but
a lot of cloud in central southern and SE England. Quite sunny in much of
Ireland, west Wales, northern and SW England and Norfolk. Cloudy in the SE
half of Belgium but increasingly sunny towards the west and north of the Low
Countries.


UK min. temps on Wednesday night http://makeashorterlink.com/?L5E41370D
or
http://www.uni-koeln.de/math-nat-fak...europazoom.gif

06.00 - Strathallan 1.4°C, Castlederg and Aviemore 1.2°C, Shap 1.1°C.

09.00 - Aboyne 0.8°C, West Freugh 0.6°C, Carterhouse 0.3°C, Tulloch
Bridge 0.2°C, Spadeadam 0.0°C, Redesdale -1.4°C, Eskdalemuir -2.2°C.

06.00 - St Mary's 9.3°C, Wittering 9.6°C, Herstmonceux 10.1°C, Solent
MRSC 10.9°C, Heathrow 11.1°C.


UK max. temps on Thursday http://makeashorterlink.com/?O3F42370D or
http://www.uni-koeln.de/math-nat-fak...europazoom.gif

Lerwick 7.0°C, Glen Ogle 8.8°C, Baltasound 9.1°C, Fair Isle 9.4°C, Loch
Glascarnoch 10.3°C.

Capel Curig, Leeming and Cottesmore 16.6°C, Solent MRSC 17.3°C,
Herstmonceux 17.4°C, Cardiff MO 17.5°C, Plymouth 17.9°C, Great Malvern
18.1°C.

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


Rainfall radar
http://www.metoffice.com/weather/eur...animation.html
Scattered outbreaks of light rain in eastern Scotland on Thursday afternoon.

Rainfall totals http://makeashorterlink.com/?L4052370D

Altnaharra, Loch Glascarnoch and Shoreham 1.0 mm, Stornoway and Capel Curig
1.2 mm, Baltasound 1.6 mm, Kirkwall 2.1 mm, Fair Isle 3 mm, Lerwick 10.8
mm.


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


Colin Youngs
Brussels

In uk.sci.weather on Thu, 27 Apr 2006, Colin Youngs
wrote :

UK max. temps on Thursday http://makeashorterlink.com/?O3F42370D or
http://www.uni-koeln.de/math-nat-fak...europazoom.gif

Capel Curig, Leeming and Cottesmore 16.6°C, Solent MRSC 17.3°C,
Herstmonceux 17.4°C, Cardiff MO 17.5°C, Plymouth 17.9°C, Great Malvern
18.1°C.

18.3C here.

This NG is as quiet as the weather...
--
Paul Hyett, Cheltenham