Meteosat 8 satellite picture from Ferdinand Valk's site at 12.00 UTC on
Friday 19th May
http://www.fvalk.com/images/Day_imag...8-1200-EUR.jpg

NOAA 18 VIS satellite picture from Bernard Burton's site at 13.38 UTC on
Friday 19th May
http://www.btinternet.com/~wokingham...1338-b-uk.html

Meteosat MSG-1 satellite picture from Bernard Burton's site at 12.00 UTC on
Friday 19th May
http://www.btinternet.com/~wokingham...g-1200-uk.html

Extensive convective cloud with showers over Britain. Generally cloudy
over southern Scotland and northern England. Frontal system moving in from
the SW. Netherlands largely cloudy; bright intervals over Belgium.


UK min. temps on Thursday night http://makeashorterlink.com/?W28D5122D
or
http://www.uni-koeln.de/math-nat-fak...europazoom.gif

06.00 - Port Ellen on Islay 6.5°C, Lerwick and Aviemore 6.3°C,
Lossiemouth 6.0°C.

09.00 - Kinloss 6.0°C, Kirkwall 5.6°C, Glen Ogle 5.2°C, Machrihanish
4.8°C, Aboyne 4.3°C, Loch Glascarnoch 4.0°C, Altnaharra 2.5°C.

06.00 - Bridlington and St Athan 10.9°C, Solent MRSC and Heathrow 11.1°C,
St Mary's 11.3°C.


UK max. temps on Friday http://makeashorterlink.com/?K39D2122D or
http://www.uni-koeln.de/math-nat-fak...europazoom.gif

Spadeadam 9.9°C, Warcop Range 11.1°C, Eskdalemuir 11.3°C, Shap and Lake
Vyrnwy 11.4°C, Fair Isle 11.6°C, Stornoway 11.7°C.

Donna Nook 16.9°C, Weybourne, Gravesend and London MO 17.0°C, Coningsby
17.2°C, Shoeburyness 117.4°C, Wattisham 17.5°C, Heathrow 17.6°C,
Leuchars 17.9°C, Holbeach 18.0°C.

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


Rainfall radar
http://www.metoffice.com/weather/eur...animation.html
Showers over Britain on Friday afternoon. Outbreaks of more general rain
move NE over Ireland and Wales and SW England later in the afternoon and
evening.

Rainfall totals http://makeashorterlink.com/?B2BD2122D

Dundrennan and Bridlington 11 mm, Cardiff MO 11.4 mm, Camborne 11.9 mm,
Keswick 12.0 mm, Shap 12.2 mm, Sennybridge 13.5 mm, Walney Island 14.2
mm, Eskdalemuir 17.5 mm, Lake Vyrnwy 22.6 mm, Capel Curig 25.8 mm,
Liscombe 27.4 mm.

Peak gusts - Langdon Bay 45 kn, Portland 46 kn, Aberporth and St
Catherine's Point 50 kn, Mumbles 51 kn, Solent MRSC 59 kn.


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


Colin Youngs
Brussels