Meteosat 8 satellite picture from Ferdinand Valk's site at 12.00 UTC on
Wednesday 9th August
http://www.fvalk.com/images/Day_imag...8-1200-EUR.jpg

NOAA 18 VIS satellite pictures from Bernard Burton's site at 13.03 UTC
on Wednesday 9th August
http://www.btinternet.com/~wokingham...03-b-uk-n.html
http://www.btinternet.com/~wokingham...03-c-uk-s.html

Meteosat MSG-1 satellite picture from Bernard Burton's site at 12.00
UTC on Wednesday 9th August
http://www.btinternet.com/~wokingham...g-1200-uk.html

Showers over Scotland and Ireland. Broken cloud over Wales and the
northern half of England but quite sunny across southern England.
Frontal cloud over the Low Countries.


UK min. temps on Tuesday night http://makeashorterlink.com/?I6141498D

09.00
Spadeadam 8.6°C, Redesdale 8.4°C, Carterhouse 7.2°C, Fife Ness
7.1°C, Glen Ogle 7.0°C.

06.00
Camborne 15.1°C, Herstmonceux and Langdon Bay 15.4°C, Guernsey
15.5°C, St Mawgan 15.8°C, St Athan 15.9°C.


UK max. temps on Wednesday http://makeashorterlink.com/?X5383398D

Glen Ogle 9.9°C, Altnaharra 12.5°C, Loch Glascarnoch 12.6°C,
Tulloch Bridge 12.7°C, Fair Isle 14.0°C.

Charlwood 22.7°C, Great Malvern and Farnborough 22.8°C, Gravesend
and Thorney Island 23.2°C, Herstmonceux 23.3°C, Heathrow and
Bournemouth 23.4°C, Shoeburyness 23.5°C, Solent MRSC 24.7°C.

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

OGIMET synops summary http://makeashorterlink.com/?R2181298D


Rainfall radar
http://www.metoffice.com/weather/eur...animation.html

Showers move SE over Scotland on Wednesday afternoon but become more
scattered in the evening. Some showers also in Ireland and northern
England.

Rainfall totals http://makeashorterlink.com/?H2583198D

Crosby and Aberdaron 4.4 mm, Stornoway 4.6 mm, Prestwick 5.1 mm,
Tulloch Bridge 5.4 mm, Baltasound 8.6 mm, Kirkwall 9.5 mm,
Altnaharra 10.8 mm, Lerwick 11.4 mm, Loch Glascarnoch 16.8 mm.


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


Colin Youngs
Brussels

In message .com,
Colin Youngs writes

UK max. temps on Wednesday http://makeashorterlink.com/?X5383398D

Charlwood 22.7°C, Great Malvern and Farnborough 22.8°C, Gravesend
and Thorney Island 23.2°C, Herstmonceux 23.3°C, Heathrow and
Bournemouth 23.4°C, Shoeburyness 23.5°C, Solent MRSC 24.7°C.

Still rather warm for a northerly airstream. Makes you wonder if there's
any ice *left* in the arctic.
--
Paul Hyett, Cheltenham (change 'invalid83261' to 'blueyonder' to email me)

On 9 Aug 2006 12:15:07 -0700, "Colin Youngs"
wrote:

Charlwood 22.7°C, Great Malvern and Farnborough 22.8°C, Gravesend
and Thorney Island 23.2°C, Herstmonceux 23.3°C, Heathrow and
Bournemouth 23.4°C, Shoeburyness 23.5°C, Solent MRSC 24.7°C.

For the second day in succession, I simply do not believe the Solent
MRSC maximum temperature. Mine (5 miles inland from there) was 21.9
deg C. Highest half hourly METAR at Southampton A/P was 21 deg C.
Thorney was 23.2 max; Bournemouth 23.4. This is subjectively
confirmed by my daughter who lives in Lee-on-the-Solent - she said
the afternoon temperatures simply did not at any time feel like 24 to
25 degrees C (out of the sun).

I've said it before and I'll keep on saying it, the exposure at Solent
MRSC is all wrong - it's basically a South/SW facing front garden
which is at times a sun trap, with an adjacent seafront road.

It's a poor show that the Met Office haven't found and set up a more
representative site for SYNOPs in the Solent area. To make it worse,
it doesn't even report rainfall totals.

I take Philip's point about soil type, made in a post some time ago -
but that's only half the story. Grrrr.

--
Dave
Fareham (West)