Northern Scotland cold and wet - Lerwick 4.3°C maximum
 

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

NOAA 18 satellite picture from Bernard Burton's site at 13.15 UTC on
Thursday 19th April
http://www.woksat.info/etcpd19/pd19-1315-b-uk.html

Meteosat MSG-1 satellite picture from Bernard Burton's site at 12.00
UTC on Thursday 19th April
http://www.woksat.info/etcpd19m/pd19-msg-1200-uk.html

Sunny and mostly clear in southern Britain and a large part of
continental Europe including Belgium. Frontal cloud from Northern
Ireland to southern Scotland and northern England.


UK min. temps on Wednesday night http://tinyurl.com/27528k

Hawarden 1.3°C, Benson and Farnborough 1.0°C, Pershore and Charlwood
0.8°C, Shawbury and Shobdon 0.7°C, Bournemouth 0.2°C, Pembrey Sands
-0.8°C, Trawsgoed -0.9°C.

Machrihanish 8.0°C, Leuchars 8.1°C, Prestwick 8.7°C, Tiree and St
Mary's 9.0°C - 06.00 UTC synops only.


UK max. temps on Thursday http://tinyurl.com/yq86fk

Lerwick 4.3°C, Wick 7.4°C, Aberdeen 8.7°C, Kinloss 9.0°C,
Stornoway 9.3°C - 18.00 UTC synops only.

Bournemouth 19.6°C, Farnborough and Northolt 19.7°C, Shoeburyness
19.8°C, Charlwood 20.4°C, London MO 20.5°C, Great Malvern 20.6°C,
Gravesend 20.7°C, Heathrow 20.8°C.

OGIMET summary http://tinyurl.com/yv3ma9


Rainfall radar http://www.meteox.com/h.aspx?r=&soort=loop24uur&URL
or
http://www.meteo24.com/uk/index.php?q=radar

Outbreaks of rain move slowly south over Scotland on Thursday morning
with scattered outbreaks in northern England in the late afternoon and
evening.

Rainfall totals http://tinyurl.com/2hzjlv

Rosehearty and Albemarle 5 mm, Fair Isle, Kirkwall and Lusa/Skye 6
mm, Carlisle 7 mm, Altnaharra 9 mm, Stornoway 10 mm, Aultbea and
Loch Glascarnoch 11 mm.


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


Colin Youngs
Brussels