Meteosat 8 satellite picture from Ferdinand Valk's site at 12.00 UTC on
Thursday 24th August
http://www.fvalk.com/images/Day_imag...8-1200-EUR.jpg

NOAA 18 VIS satellite picture from DLR at 11.57 UTC on Thursday 24th
August
http://www.wetteronline.de/daten/sat...jpg?1156420620

Fairly sunny over much of Scotland and southwards to the west Midlands.
Cloudy in eastern England as a result of low pressure to the east.


UK min. temps on Wednesday night
http://makeashorterlink.com/?J204530AD

09.00
Ballykelly 5.0°C, Eskdalemuir 4.6°C, Altnaharra 4.5°C, Castlederg
3.9°C, Tulloch Bridge 3.6°C, Loch Glascarnoch 2.7°C.

06.00
Solent MRSC 14.0°C, St Mawgan and Wattisham 14.1°C, Bridlington and
Langdon Bay 14.2°C, Marham 14.5°C, Heathrow 14.6°C.


UK max. temps on Thursday http://makeashorterlink.com/?T124250AD

Rosehearty 13.7°C, Glen Ogle 13.8°C, Kirkwall and Wick 14.1°C.

Strathallan, Church Fenton and Boscombe Down 21.5°C, Leuchars, Great
Malvern and Odiham 21.6°C, Pershore 21.7°C, Thorney Island 22.4°C,
Bournemouth 22.5°C, Solent MRSC 23.0°C.

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

OGIMET synops summary http://makeashorterlink.com/?N334210AD


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

Rain persists overnight and on Thursday in East Anglia and SE England
and does not finally move away until early evening.

Rainfall totals http://makeashorterlink.com/?Z144210AD

London MO 11.8 mm, Great Malvern 12 mm, St Catherine's Point 12.4
mm, Bridlington 14 mm, Andrewsfield 15.7 mm, Herstmonceux 17.9 mm,
Charlwood 19.0 mm, Marham 24.5 mm, Shoeburyness 29.2 mm, Kenley 30.0
mm, Wattisham 33.9 mm, Manston 35.2 mm.


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


Colin Youngs
Brussels

Colin Youngs wrote:
Meteosat 8 satellite picture from Ferdinand Valk's site at 12.00 UTC on
Thursday 24th August
http://www.fvalk.com/images/Day_imag...8-1200-EUR.jpg

NOAA 18 VIS satellite picture from DLR at 11.57 UTC on Thursday 24th
August
http://www.wetteronline.de/daten/sat...jpg?1156420620

Fairly sunny over much of Scotland and southwards to the west Midlands.
Cloudy in eastern England as a result of low pressure to the east.


UK min. temps on Wednesday night
http://makeashorterlink.com/?J204530AD

09.00
Ballykelly 5.0°C, Eskdalemuir 4.6°C, Altnaharra 4.5°C, Castlederg
3.9°C, Tulloch Bridge 3.6°C, Loch Glascarnoch 2.7°C.

06.00
Solent MRSC 14.0°C, St Mawgan and Wattisham 14.1°C, Bridlington and
Langdon Bay 14.2°C, Marham 14.5°C, Heathrow 14.6°C.


UK max. temps on Thursday http://makeashorterlink.com/?T124250AD

Rosehearty 13.7°C, Glen Ogle 13.8°C, Kirkwall and Wick 14.1°C.

Strathallan, Church Fenton and Boscombe Down 21.5°C, Leuchars, Great
Malvern and Odiham 21.6°C, Pershore 21.7°C, Thorney Island 22.4°C,
Bournemouth 22.5°C, Solent MRSC 23.0°C.

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

OGIMET synops summary http://makeashorterlink.com/?N334210AD


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

Rain persists overnight and on Thursday in East Anglia and SE England
and does not finally move away until early evening.

Rainfall totals http://makeashorterlink.com/?Z144210AD

London MO 11.8 mm, Great Malvern 12 mm, St Catherine's Point 12.4
mm, Bridlington 14 mm, Andrewsfield 15.7 mm, Herstmonceux 17.9 mm,
Charlwood 19.0 mm, Marham 24.5 mm, Shoeburyness 29.2 mm, Kenley 30.0
mm, Wattisham 33.9 mm, Manston 35.2 mm.


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


Colin Youngs
Brussels


Colin, what time span do those rainfall totals cover? I only ask because
Shoeburyness is about 7 miles ESE of me and for the 24 hours 18:00 to
18:00 gmt my total was 19.4mm, some 10mm less, prior to that I had only
recorded 1.0mm. I will have to look in the Torygraph tomorrow to see if
they report Southend-on-Sea as I think they use the 18:00 to 18:00 time
span as well.

--
Keith (Southend)
http://www.southendweather.net
e-mail: kreh at southendweather dot net

"Keith (Southend)" schreef in bericht
...:
Shoeburyness 29.2 mm

: Colin, what time span do those rainfall totals cover? I only ask because
: Shoeburyness is about 7 miles ESE of me and for the 24 hours 18:00 to
: 18:00 gmt my total was 19.4mm, some 10mm less, prior to that I had only
: recorded 1.0mm. I will have to look in the Torygraph tomorrow to see if
: they report Southend-on-Sea as I think they use the 18:00 to 18:00 time
: span as well.

Keith,

Rainfall figures come from the Met Office site
http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/...yesterday.html which
says that the period covered is the 24 hours up to 18.00 UTC/GMT.

OGIMET http://makeashorterlink.com/?N334210AD gives 29 mm for
Shoeburyness as does WeatherOnline for that same 24-hour period.

Even so, I still don't understand why there are sometimes discrepancies
between the rainfall figures given on the Met Office site and the totals for
what is supposedly the same 24-hour period quoted on other websites.

Colin Youngs
Brussels

Colin Youngs wrote:
"Keith (Southend)" schreef in bericht
...:
Shoeburyness 29.2 mm

: Colin, what time span do those rainfall totals cover? I only ask because
: Shoeburyness is about 7 miles ESE of me and for the 24 hours 18:00 to
: 18:00 gmt my total was 19.4mm, some 10mm less, prior to that I had only
: recorded 1.0mm. I will have to look in the Torygraph tomorrow to see if
: they report Southend-on-Sea as I think they use the 18:00 to 18:00 time
: span as well.

Keith,

Rainfall figures come from the Met Office site
http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/...yesterday.html which
says that the period covered is the 24 hours up to 18.00 UTC/GMT.

OGIMET http://makeashorterlink.com/?N334210AD gives 29 mm for
Shoeburyness as does WeatherOnline for that same 24-hour period.

Even so, I still don't understand why there are sometimes discrepancies
between the rainfall figures given on the Met Office site and the totals for
what is supposedly the same 24-hour period quoted on other websites.

Colin Youngs
Brussels

The Kenley figure of 30.0 mm looks highly suspect to me and is
probably 20.0 mm. At 18Z Wednesday there was probably at least 1 mm
in my gauge from earlier light showers and the total I measured this
morning (Thursday) was 20.7 mm and there has been no rain since. I am
1½ miles ENE of Kenley and at a similar altitude. Peter Clarke in
Ewell recorded 20.4 mm and 19 mm was recorded in Horsham and I think
there was a similar amount at Charlwood.

Tudor Hughes, Warlingham, NE Surrey, 556 ft.

"Keith (Southend)" wrote
Colin Youngs wrote:

London MO 11.8 mm, Great Malvern 12 mm, St Catherine's Point 12.4
mm, Bridlington 14 mm, Andrewsfield 15.7 mm, Herstmonceux 17.9 mm,
Charlwood 19.0 mm, Marham 24.5 mm, Shoeburyness 29.2 mm, Kenley 30.0
mm, Wattisham 33.9 mm, Manston 35.2 mm.

Colin, what time span do those rainfall totals cover? I only ask because
Shoeburyness is about 7 miles ESE of me and for the 24 hours 18:00 to
18:00 gmt my total was 19.4mm, some 10mm less, prior to that I had only
recorded 1.0mm. I will have to look in the Torygraph tomorrow to see if
they report Southend-on-Sea as I think they use the 18:00 to 18:00 time
span as well.

29mm at Southend too ... for the whole event, that is. However, it is not
beyond the bounds of possibility that whoever compiles the resort list
at the MO substitutes Shoeburyness if Southend is, for whatever reason,
unavailable. It helps make the list look more complete and themselves
more efficient.

Philip