NOAA 16 VIS satellite picture from Bernard Burton's site at 12.46 UTC on
Thursday
http://www.btinternet.com/~wokingham...-1246-c-uk.JPG

NOAA 16 VIS satellite picture from Dundee at 12.48 UTC on Thursday
http://makeashorterlink.com/?R25612935

NOAA 16 VIS satellite picture from DLR at 12.37 UTC on Thursday
http://www.dfd.dlr.de/ftp/put/wetter...7101237.uk.jpg

Broad but rather diffuse mass of cloud marks the cold front from Scotland
through northern England to Wales and the SW. Sunny in most of the
Midlands and southern England. Sunny and almost clear over the Low
Countries.


UK min. temps on Wednesday night
http://www.medvale.demon.co.uk/weath...s/mn100703.jpg

Scotland 12 to 18°C; Northern Isles 12 to 14°C; Western Isles 14 to 16°C;
Northern England 12 to 17°C; Midlands 14 to 18°C; East Anglia 12 to 16°C;
SE England 11 to 18°C; SW England 13 to 16°C.

Lerwick and Baltasound 12.2°C, Bealach na Bà (773 m) 11.7°C, Shoreham
11.3°C, Great Dun Fell (847 m) and Bournemouth 11.1°C, Cairnwell (933 m)
10.8°C, Redhill 9.0°C.

Heathrow 16.2°C, Aberporth 16.3°C, St Mary's 16.4°C, Gogarbank 16.5°C,
Manchester 16.9°C, Kinloss 17.1°C, Guernsey 17.2°C.


UK max. temps on Thursday
http://www.medvale.demon.co.uk/weath...s/mx100703.jpg

Scotland 15 to 24°C; Northern Isles 15 to 19°C; Western Isles 16 to 18°C;
Northern England 16 to 26°C; Midlands 22 to 27°C; East Anglia 26 to 29°C;
SE England 21 to 29°C; SW England 21 to 27°C.

Lerwick 14.8°C, Tiree 16.3°C, South Uist 16.5°C, Valley 16.6°C,
Eskdalemuir 17.0°C, Stornoway 18.1°C, Bishopton 18.2°C, Prestwick 18.7°C.

Brize Norton 27.8°C, Coltishall and Benson 28.0°C, Wattisham 28.1°C,
Bedford 28.3°C, Northolt 28.8°C, Andrewsfield 29.2°C, London WC and
Heathrow 29.3°C, Gravesend 29.5°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

Scattered outbreaks of rain in west Scotland and NW England early on
Wednesday night. Rain moves into Ireland and the west of Scotland by
Thursday morning. Some outbreaks of rain move across Scotland during the
morning and into northern England and north Wales in the afternoon.

Shap 5.2 mm, Bishopton 6 mm, Spadeadam 6.2 mm, Barra 6.4 mm, Tiree 6.7
mm, Capel Curig 6.8 mm, Port Ellen on Islay 7.4 mm, Dundrennan 7.8 mm,
Lusa/Skye 8.0 mm, Eskdalemuir 18.2 mm.


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


Colin Youngs
Brussels