NOAA 16 VIS satellite pictures from Bernard Burton's site at 12.53 UTC on
Saturday
http://www.btinternet.com/~wokingham...253-d-uk-n.JPG
http://www.btinternet.com/~wokingham...253-e-uk-s.JPG

NOAA 16 VIS satellite picture from Dundee at 12.55 UTC on Saturday
http://makeashorterlink.com/?V22823FA5

NOAA 16 VIS satellite picture from DLR at 12.44 UTC on Saturday
http://www.dfd.dlr.de/ftp/put/wetter...8231244.uk.jpg

Sunny in much of Scotland and NE England. Variable and fairly extensive
cloud elsewhere. Band of cloud from west and central Belgium to SE
Netherlands but the NW half of the Netherlands and the rest of Belgium are
fairly sunny.


UK min. temps on Friday night
http://www.medvale.demon.co.uk/weath...s/mn230803.jpg

Scotland 5 to 14°C; Northern Isles 12 to 13°C; Western Isles 8 to 13°C;
Northern England 9 to 17°C; Midlands, East Anglia and Southern England 15
to 18°C.

Bealach na Bà (773 m) 6.3°C, Leuchars 6.1°C, Saughall 5.4°C, Gogarbank
5.3°C, Charterhall 5.2°C, Cairnwell (933 m) 4.6°C, Strathallan 3.2°C,
Tulloch Bridge 2.2°C.

Culdrose and Wittering 17.2°C, Watnall 17.3°C, Heathrow 17.4°C, St Mary's
17.5°C, St Athan 17.6°C, Coltishall 17.8°C, Marham 18.0°C.


UK max. temps on Saturday
http://www.uni-koeln.de/math-nat-fak...europazoom.gif

Scotland 17 to 25°C; Northern Isles 16 to 17°C; Western Isles 16 to 19°C;
Northern England 18 to 25°C; Midlands 22 to 27°C; East Anglia 20 to 26°C;
SE England 20 to 28°C; SW England 21 to 26°C.

Kirkwall 16.4°C, Tiree 16.7°C, Lerwick 16.8°C, Stornoway 17.0°C, Wick
and South Uist 17.1°C, Boulmer 17.9°C.

Bedford, Bracknell and Heathrow 27.1°C, Brize Norton 27.2°C, Bournemouth
27.3°C, Benson 27.4°C, Shobdon, Church Lawford and Northolt 27.5°C,
Gravesend 27.6°C.


Rainfall radar http://www.westwind.ch/w_0rad.php United Kingdom -30h ANIM
Rainfall radar stills http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/live/brradar.shtml

Some showers in Ireland and Wales and around Manchester on Friday night.
Some in Lincolnshire on Saturday morning and in the north of Ireland in the
afternoon.

Llanbedr, Trawsgoed and Coltishall 2 mm, Manchester and Wainfleet 2.4 mm,
Rhyl 3.4 mm.


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


Colin Youngs
Brussels

In uk.sci.weather on Sun, 24 Aug 2003 at 00:00:30, Colin Youngs wrote :

UK max. temps on Saturday

Gravesend 27.6°C.

I don't remember them featuring that much in the high temperature stakes
before this year, or is that just my poor memory?
--
Paul Hyett, Cheltenham, England

"Paul Hyett" wrote in message
...
In uk.sci.weather on Sun, 24 Aug 2003 at 00:00:30, Colin Youngs wrote
:

UK max. temps on Saturday

Gravesend 27.6°C.

I don't remember them featuring that much in the high temperature
stakes
before this year, or is that just my poor memory?
--
Paul Hyett, Cheltenham, England

It is odd that a site surrounded by water on three sides produces high
temperatures on such a regular basis. I can see why Heathrow or the LWC
are hot - it's all of the buildings and concrete. The only thing going
for Gravesend is its low altitude.

Alan

I also got a 27.5C on 23rd here in Wokingham. The max occurred quite late in
the afternoon, too, at 1631 GMT.

--
Bernard Burton
Wokingham, Berkshire, UK.


Satellite images at:
www.btinternet.com/~wokingham.weather/wwp.html
"Colin Youngs" wrote in message
...
NOAA 16 VIS satellite pictures from Bernard Burton's site at 12.53 UTC on
Saturday
http://www.btinternet.com/~wokingham...253-d-uk-n.JPG
http://www.btinternet.com/~wokingham...253-e-uk-s.JPG

NOAA 16 VIS satellite picture from Dundee at 12.55 UTC on Saturday
http://makeashorterlink.com/?V22823FA5

NOAA 16 VIS satellite picture from DLR at 12.44 UTC on Saturday
http://www.dfd.dlr.de/ftp/put/wetter...8231244.uk.jpg

Sunny in much of Scotland and NE England. Variable and fairly extensive
cloud elsewhere. Band of cloud from west and central Belgium to SE
Netherlands but the NW half of the Netherlands and the rest of Belgium are
fairly sunny.


UK min. temps on Friday night
http://www.medvale.demon.co.uk/weath...s/mn230803.jpg

Scotland 5 to 14°C; Northern Isles 12 to 13°C; Western Isles 8 to 13°C;
Northern England 9 to 17°C; Midlands, East Anglia and Southern England 15
to 18°C.

Bealach na Bà (773 m) 6.3°C, Leuchars 6.1°C, Saughall 5.4°C, Gogarbank
5.3°C, Charterhall 5.2°C, Cairnwell (933 m) 4.6°C, Strathallan 3.2°C,
Tulloch Bridge 2.2°C.

Culdrose and Wittering 17.2°C, Watnall 17.3°C, Heathrow 17.4°C, St
Mary's
17.5°C, St Athan 17.6°C, Coltishall 17.8°C, Marham 18.0°C.


UK max. temps on Saturday

http://www.uni-koeln.de/math-nat-fak...europazoom.gif

Scotland 17 to 25°C; Northern Isles 16 to 17°C; Western Isles 16 to
19°C;
Northern England 18 to 25°C; Midlands 22 to 27°C; East Anglia 20 to
26°C;
SE England 20 to 28°C; SW England 21 to 26°C.

Kirkwall 16.4°C, Tiree 16.7°C, Lerwick 16.8°C, Stornoway 17.0°C, Wick
and South Uist 17.1°C, Boulmer 17.9°C.

Bedford, Bracknell and Heathrow 27.1°C, Brize Norton 27.2°C, Bournemouth
27.3°C, Benson 27.4°C, Shobdon, Church Lawford and Northolt 27.5°C,
Gravesend 27.6°C.


Rainfall radar http://www.westwind.ch/w_0rad.php United Kingdom -30h
ANIM
Rainfall radar stills http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/live/brradar.shtml

Some showers in Ireland and Wales and around Manchester on Friday night.
Some in Lincolnshire on Saturday morning and in the north of Ireland in
the
afternoon.

Llanbedr, Trawsgoed and Coltishall 2 mm, Manchester and Wainfleet 2.4 mm,
Rhyl 3.4 mm.


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


Colin Youngs
Brussels

"Alan Gardiner" wrote in message
...
|
| "Paul Hyett" wrote in message
| ...
| In uk.sci.weather on Sun, 24 Aug 2003 at 00:00:30, Colin Youngs wrote
| :
|
| UK max. temps on Saturday
|
| Gravesend 27.6°C.
|
| I don't remember them featuring that much in the high temperature
| stakes
| before this year, or is that just my poor memory?
| --
| Paul Hyett, Cheltenham, England
|
| It is odd that a site surrounded by water on three sides produces high
| temperatures on such a regular basis. I can see why Heathrow or the LWC
| are hot - it's all of the buildings and concrete. The only thing going
| for Gravesend is its low altitude.
|
| Alan

Also, at a guess, very dry soil surrounding the site.

Jow

"Joe Hunt" wrote in message
...

"Alan Gardiner" wrote in message
...
|
|
| It is odd that a site surrounded by water on three sides produces high
| temperatures on such a regular basis. I can see why Heathrow or the LWC
| are hot - it's all of the buildings and concrete. The only thing going
| for Gravesend is its low altitude.
|

Also, at a guess, very dry soil surrounding the site.

Ah, Swanscombe Marshes, you mean ... :-)

pe

I can see why Heathrow or the LWC
| are hot - it's all of the buildings and concrete. The only thing going
| for Gravesend is its low altitude.
|
| Alan

Also, at a guess, very dry soil surrounding the site.
,,,Joe.

Dry now, but the site is really estuarine marshland, adjacent to mudflats. The
thermal characteristics of this surface are probably part of the answer, but it
is rather surprising. The site *has* often featured as warmest in UK, but has
only been running since since (I think) 1995. My student who tried to solve
this mystery investigated the effect of times of high / low water on maxima but
found no influence. The key explanatory variable for warmth relative to other
sites was southerly winds, and we tend to notice maxima in southerlies because
they tend to be high in summer! Advection of an urban warming effect from SE
London and the height differnece from the North Downs are probably thus part of
the explanation too.

Julian

Julian Mayes,
Univ of Surrey Roehampton & West Molesey. 0.4 mm in the early morning shower
here. It brings the monthly total to nearly 2mm!

Gravesend gets the high temps for the same reason the Medway Towns often
gets high temps. Gillingham has the highest recorded mid summers day
temperature in the country. The reason is: The North Downs are to the
south, at approx 700 feet above sea level. In a Southerly wind, air flows
down the gentle sloping North facing side of the Downs. As the air
gradually sinks towards sea level, it tends to warm up. The net result is
Gravesend, Medway and some other areas just to the North of the North Downs,
tend to be warmer, sunnier and drier than surrounding areas. An Esterly or
Northeasterly on the other hand tends to be very cool often with low cloud.
This setup in winter can produce bitterly cold conditions with large amounts
of snow.

Shaun Pudwell,
Costa del Warden Bay, nr. Leysdown, Kent.

"Bernard Burton" wrote in message
...
I also got a 27.5C on 23rd here in Wokingham. The max occurred quite late
in
the afternoon, too, at 1631 GMT.

--
Bernard Burton
Wokingham, Berkshire, UK.


Satellite images at:
www.btinternet.com/~wokingham.weather/wwp.html
"Colin Youngs" wrote in message
...
NOAA 16 VIS satellite pictures from Bernard Burton's site at 12.53 UTC
on
Saturday
http://www.btinternet.com/~wokingham...253-d-uk-n.JPG
http://www.btinternet.com/~wokingham...253-e-uk-s.JPG

NOAA 16 VIS satellite picture from Dundee at 12.55 UTC on Saturday
http://makeashorterlink.com/?V22823FA5

NOAA 16 VIS satellite picture from DLR at 12.44 UTC on Saturday
http://www.dfd.dlr.de/ftp/put/wetter...8231244.uk.jpg

Sunny in much of Scotland and NE England. Variable and fairly
extensive
cloud elsewhere. Band of cloud from west and central Belgium to SE
Netherlands but the NW half of the Netherlands and the rest of Belgium
are
fairly sunny.


UK min. temps on Friday night
http://www.medvale.demon.co.uk/weath...s/mn230803.jpg

Scotland 5 to 14°C; Northern Isles 12 to 13°C; Western Isles 8 to
13°C;
Northern England 9 to 17°C; Midlands, East Anglia and Southern England
15
to 18°C.

Bealach na Bà (773 m) 6.3°C, Leuchars 6.1°C, Saughall 5.4°C,
Gogarbank
5.3°C, Charterhall 5.2°C, Cairnwell (933 m) 4.6°C, Strathallan 3.2°C,
Tulloch Bridge 2.2°C.

Culdrose and Wittering 17.2°C, Watnall 17.3°C, Heathrow 17.4°C, St
Mary's
17.5°C, St Athan 17.6°C, Coltishall 17.8°C, Marham 18.0°C.


UK max. temps on Saturday


http://www.uni-koeln.de/math-nat-fak...europazoom.gif

Scotland 17 to 25°C; Northern Isles 16 to 17°C; Western Isles 16 to
19°C;
Northern England 18 to 25°C; Midlands 22 to 27°C; East Anglia 20 to
26°C;
SE England 20 to 28°C; SW England 21 to 26°C.

Kirkwall 16.4°C, Tiree 16.7°C, Lerwick 16.8°C, Stornoway 17.0°C,
Wick
and South Uist 17.1°C, Boulmer 17.9°C.

Bedford, Bracknell and Heathrow 27.1°C, Brize Norton 27.2°C,
Bournemouth
27.3°C, Benson 27.4°C, Shobdon, Church Lawford and Northolt 27.5°C,
Gravesend 27.6°C.


Rainfall radar http://www.westwind.ch/w_0rad.php United Kingdom -30h
ANIM
Rainfall radar stills http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/live/brradar.shtml

Some showers in Ireland and Wales and around Manchester on Friday night.
Some in Lincolnshire on Saturday morning and in the north of Ireland in
the
afternoon.

Llanbedr, Trawsgoed and Coltishall 2 mm, Manchester and Wainfleet 2.4
mm,
Rhyl 3.4 mm.


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


Colin Youngs
Brussels

In uk.sci.weather on Sun, 24 Aug 2003 at 07:08:58, Paul Hyett wrote :
In uk.sci.weather on Sun, 24 Aug 2003 at 00:00:30, Colin Youngs wrote :

UK max. temps on Saturday

Gravesend 27.6°C.

I don't remember them featuring that much in the high temperature stakes
before this year, or is that just my poor memory?

BTW, I was surprised this morning to see my rain gauge wasn't empty - an
unexpected 0.3mm.
--
Paul Hyett, Cheltenham, England