Meteosat 8 satellite picture from Ferdinand Valk's site at 12.00 UTC on
Friday 18th August
http://www.fvalk.com/images/Day_imag...8-1200-EUR.jpg

NOAA 18 VIS satellite picture from DLR at 13.04 UTC on Friday 18th
August
http://www.wetteronline.de/daten/sat...jpg?1155906240

Large area of frontal cloud from Wales through the Irish Sea and across
southern Scotland and northern England. Area of showers and
thunderstorms from the Bristol Channel to the Wash with broken
convective cloud to the south.


UK min. temps on Thursday night
http://makeashorterlink.com/?O2D71249D

09.00
Keswick and Shawbury 10.1°C, Rhyl 10.0°C, Hawarden 9.9°C,
Sennybridge 9.6°C, Crosby 9.4°C, Tulloch Bridge 8.7°C, Altnaharra
7.0°C, Shap 6.4°C, Capel Curig 6.1°C.

06.00
Machrihanish and Herstmonceux 14.4°C, Aberdeen and Leuchars 14.6°C,
Heathrow 15.0°C, Solent MRSC 16.6°C.


UK max. temps on Friday http://makeashorterlink.com/?K2CF3149D

Lake Vyrnwy 13.6°C, Glen Ogle 14.4°C, Hawarden 14.9°C,
Eskdalemuir and Rhyl 15.1°C.

Andrewsfield and Boscombe Down 21.1°C, St Angelo and Ballykelly
21.2°C, Yeovilton and Wattisham 21.4°C, Coningsby and London MO
21.5°C, Lusa/Skye 21.6°C, Castlederg and Gravesend 21.9°C, Marham
22.1°C, Weybourne 23.6°C.

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

OGIMET synops summary http://makeashorterlink.com/?O2DF5649D


Rainfall radar
http://www.meteox.com/h.aspx?r=holid...oort=loop24uur or
http://www.metoffice.com/weather/eur...animation.html

Broad band of rain moves north and anti-clockwise from north Wales
through northern England and southern Scotland on Friday. Showers and
thunderstorms move NE across the southern half of England.

Rainfall totals http://makeashorterlink.com/?V1FF3249D

Strathallan 21 mm, Linton-on-Ouse and Coleshill 22 mm, Leeming 23 mm,
Bingley and High Wycombe 24 mm, Edinburgh Gogarbank 25.5 mm, Filton
27.4 mm, Lake Vyrnwy 27.8 mm, Church Fenton 28.9 mm, Yeovilton 31.6
mm, Drumalbin 34.2 mm, Prestwick 38.2 mm, Boulmer 38.9 mm.

Sferics http://www.wetterzentrale.de/pics/Rsfloc3.gif or
http://www.wetterzentrale.de/topkarten/tkbeoblar.htm August 18
Intensity


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


Colin Youngs
Brussels

In message om, Colin
Youngs writes

UK min. temps on Thursday night
http://makeashorterlink.com/?O2D71249D

09.00
Keswick and Shawbury 10.1°C, Rhyl 10.0°C, Hawarden 9.9°C,
Sennybridge 9.6°C, Crosby 9.4°C, Tulloch Bridge 8.7°C, Altnaharra
7.0°C, Shap 6.4°C, Capel Curig 6.1°C.

I haven't had a night minima below 10C for the whole of August so far,
none since the 15th July in fact - how does that compare with other
parts of southern England?

The current run is 35 successive nights above 10C, closing in on my
record of 41 such nights from 23/7-1/9/97...
--
Paul Hyett, Cheltenham (change 'invalid83261' to 'blueyonder' to email me)

"Paul Hyett" wrote in message
...
In message om, Colin
Youngs writes

UK min. temps on Thursday night
http://makeashorterlink.com/?O2D71249D

09.00
Keswick and Shawbury 10.1°C, Rhyl 10.0°C, Hawarden 9.9°C,
Sennybridge 9.6°C, Crosby 9.4°C, Tulloch Bridge 8.7°C, Altnaharra
7.0°C, Shap 6.4°C, Capel Curig 6.1°C.

I haven't had a night minima below 10C for the whole of August so far,
none since the 15th July in fact - how does that compare with other parts
of southern England?

The current run is 35 successive nights above 10C, closing in on my record
of 41 such nights from 23/7-1/9/97...
--
Paul Hyett, Cheltenham (change 'invalid83261' to 'blueyonder' to email me)

Paul,

Double digit temps go all the way back to 24th June when +9.8C was
recorded here, so that's 56 days in a row.

Nigel (Romsey, Hampshire)

In message , Nigel Paice
writes
"Paul Hyett" wrote in message
...

I haven't had a night minima below 10C for the whole of August so far,
none since the 15th July in fact - how does that compare with other parts
of southern England?

The current run is 35 successive nights above 10C, closing in on my record
of 41 such nights from 23/7-1/9/97...

Double digit temps go all the way back to 24th June when +9.8C was
recorded here, so that's 56 days in a row.

Given that the wind has been from the N or NW for the last several
weeks, the lack of cold nights is even more unusual.
--
Paul Hyett, Cheltenham (change 'invalid83261' to 'blueyonder' to email me)

In message , Paul Hyett
writes

I haven't had a night minima below 10C for the whole of August so far,
none since the 15th July in fact - how does that compare with other
parts of southern England?

The current run is 35 successive nights above 10C, closing in on my
record of 41 such nights from 23/7-1/9/97...

It's not to be : last night (unexpectedly) dropped below 10C, ending the
sequence at 37 nights, and in fact was the coldest night since 23rd
June.
--
Paul Hyett, Cheltenham (change 'invalid83261' to 'blueyonder' to email me)

Paul Hyett wrote:
In message , Paul Hyett
writes

I haven't had a night minima below 10C for the whole of August so far,
none since the 15th July in fact - how does that compare with other
parts of southern England?

The current run is 35 successive nights above 10C, closing in on my
record of 41 such nights from 23/7-1/9/97...

It's not to be : last night (unexpectedly) dropped below 10C, ending the
sequence at 37 nights, and in fact was the coldest night since 23rd June.

Not so easy as I thought.

I trolled throught the UKMO FAX at WetterZentrale to see if there was
anything like a negative NAO around then and there doesn't at first
glance appear to be anything indicative for a few more days with a
relatively deep Low of 985 deepening mid Atlantic by the 29th June,
replacing (or at least, pushing it of the map) a relatively high
anticyclone of 1035.

Whilst it all gets rather tight on the 7th JUly on, it is still very
much a positive NAO with a nice warm Low of 978 appearing off Greenland
on the 11th.

I seem to recall that something struck me as different about the lunar
phases for June, but I can't remember what it was.
JUNE 18 14:08 should have been sunny with not much cloud.
JUNE 25 16:05 should have been wet.
JULY 3 16:37 This is the one that threw me IIRC.
JULY 11 3:02 and this should have been a classically thundery one with
a positive NAO.

By the 18th, a pattern of sending cyclones through the Norwegian Sea up
toward the Berents Sea seems to have become adopted. And the Low
pressures from then on are fairly high in the NA except for a blip with
the Canucks. And even that seemed to push off into the Arctic by the
23rd.

A month late..
...Still, since you won't be interested; never mind eh,?

Mustn't grumble.

Weatherlawyer wrote:
Paul Hyett wrote:
In message , Paul Hyett
writes

I haven't had a night minima below 10C for the whole of August so far,
none since the 15th July in fact - how does that compare with other
parts of southern England?

The current run is 35 successive nights above 10C, closing in on my
record of 41 such nights from 23/7-1/9/97...

It's not to be : last night (unexpectedly) dropped below 10C, ending the
sequence at 37 nights, and in fact was the coldest night since 23rd June.

Not so easy as I thought.

I trolled throught the UKMO FAX at WetterZentrale to see if there was
anything like a negative NAO around then and there doesn't at first
glance appear to be anything indicative for a few more days with a
relatively deep Low of 985 deepening mid Atlantic by the 29th June,
replacing (or at least, pushing it of the map) a relatively high
anticyclone of 1035.

Whilst it all gets rather tight on the 7th July on, it is still very
much a positive NAO with a nice warm Low of 978 appearing off Greenland
on the 11th.

I seem to recall that something struck me as different about the lunar
phases for June, but I can't remember what it was.
JUNE 18 14:08 should have been sunny with not much cloud.
JUNE 25 16:05 should have been wet.
JULY 3 16:37 This is the one that threw me IIRC.
JULY 11 3:02 and this should have been a classically thundery one with
a positive NAO.

By the 18th, a pattern of sending cyclones through the Norwegian Sea up
toward the Berents Sea seems to have become adopted. And the Low
pressures from then on are fairly high in the NA except for a blip with
the Canucks. And even that seemed to push off into the Arctic by the
23rd.

A month late..
..Still, since you won't be interested; never mind eh,?

Mustn't grumble.

On the way home from work in Nutsford, I notice that the used rain was
pouring up. Whilst the road drains were coping, inspection covers of
unkonwn provenance were leaking at their gills -all down the A50.

From about 2pm till way past 5 pm the water fell down in buckets, all
the way from there to Stoke. So things are back to normal at last.

Anyone there? Hello?

Not to worry.