Meteosat 8 satellite picture from Ferdinand Valk's site at 12.00 UTC
on Thursday 17th April
http://www.fvalk.com/images/Day_imag...8-1200-EUR.jpg

NOAA 18 satellite picture from Bernard Burton's site at 12.21 UTC on
Thursday 17th April
http://www.woksat.info/etcqd17/qd17-1221-b-uk.html

Shallow convective cloud over Britain with rather denser cloud over
Wales. Belgium fairly sunny with shallow convective cloud in the
east and west.


UK min. temps on Wednesday night http://tinyurl.com/3ns8r7

Topcliffe -2.0°C, Spadeadam -2.1°C, Tain Range and Lossiemouth
-2.2°C, Aviemore, Eskdalemuir and Redesdale -2.4°C, Shap -2.6°C,
Kinloss -3.6°C, Aboyne -4.0°C.

Mumbles 6.0°C, Plymouth 6.1°C, Camborne 6.4°C, Culdrose 7.0°C,
Portland and St Catherine’s Point 7.2°C, St Mary’s 9.1°C.


UK max. temps on Thursday http://tinyurl.com/3p6y4p

Glen Ogle 4.5°C, Loch Glascarnoch 6.5°C, Lake Vyrnwy and Donna Nook
6.9°C, Copley 7.2°C, Spadeadam 7.4°C, Eskdalemuir 7.5°C.

Crosby, Pembey Sands, Thorney Island and Boscombe Down 11.4°C, West
Freugh and Prestwick 11.5°C, Bracknell 11.6°C, Lusa/Skye and Great
Malvern 11.7°C, Yeovilton 11.8°C, Chivenor 12.2°C, Solent MRSC and
Bournemouth 12.7°C.

OGIMET summary http://tinyurl.com/4qx39m

Rainfall radar http://www.meteox.com/h.aspx?r=&soort=loop24uur&URL
or http://www.meteogroup.co.uk:80/uk/ho...d_kingdom.html

Rainfall totals in 24 hours ending 18.00 UTC on Thursday
http://tinyurl.com/43fysd

Copley and Knaresborough Scotton 2.0 mm, Spadeadam 2 mm, Loftus,
Holbeach, Scampton and Nottingham Watnall 3 mm, Weybourne 4 mm,
Albemarle 6 mm, Cranwell and Wainfleet 10 mm.


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


Colin Youngs
Brussels

In article
,
Colin Youngs writes:
UK max. temps on Thursday http://tinyurl.com/3p6y4p

Glen Ogle 4.5°C, Loch Glascarnoch 6.5°C, Lake Vyrnwy and Donna Nook
6.9°C, Copley 7.2°C, Spadeadam 7.4°C, Eskdalemuir 7.5°C.

I'm beginning to wonder about Glen Ogle. Its maxima recently seem often
to have been some 2 degrees colder than anywhere else. The Wikipedia
article on Glen Ogle doesn't suggest that it's at a particularly high
altitude, so I wonder if there could be some problem with the
temperature sensor.
--
John Hall
"If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts;
but if he will be content to begin with doubts,
he shall end in certainties." Francis Bacon (1561-1626)

In article ,
John Hall writes:
In article
,
Colin Youngs writes:
UK max. temps on Thursday http://tinyurl.com/3p6y4p

Glen Ogle 4.5°C, Loch Glascarnoch 6.5°C, Lake Vyrnwy and Donna Nook
6.9°C, Copley 7.2°C, Spadeadam 7.4°C, Eskdalemuir 7.5°C.

I'm beginning to wonder about Glen Ogle. Its maxima recently seem often
to have been some 2 degrees colder than anywhere else. The Wikipedia
article on Glen Ogle doesn't suggest that it's at a particularly high
altitude, so I wonder if there could be some problem with the
temperature sensor.

I take that back. Searching on the Met Office site, I've found that the
weather station is at an elevation of 564 m above mean sea level, in
other words some 1500ft. I imagine it's well up the side of the glen
rather than at the foot.
--
John Hall
"If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts;
but if he will be content to begin with doubts,
he shall end in certainties." Francis Bacon (1561-1626)

"John Hall" schreef in bericht
...

: Colin Youngs writes:
: UK max. temps on Thursday http://tinyurl.com/3p6y4p
: Glen Ogle 4.5°C

: I take that back. Searching on the Met Office site, I've found that the
: weather station is at an elevation of 564 m above mean sea level, in
: other words some 1500ft. I imagine it's well up the side of the glen
: rather than at the foot.

I think I decided some time ago that Glen Ogle was not quite high enough to
qualify as an unrepresentative "mountain site" like Bealach Na Ba or
Cairngorm, for example, but that is open to discussion of course.

Colin Youngs
Brussels

On Thu, 17 Apr 2008 21:35:05 +0100, John Hall
wrote:

I take that back. Searching on the Met Office site, I've found that the
weather station is at an elevation of 564 m above mean sea level, in
other words some 1500ft. I imagine it's well up the side of the glen
rather than at the foot.

The OS map shows a spot height on the road of 288 metres although the
highest point seems to be slightly above 300 metres. This was discussed
some time ago and it was suggested that the weather station was probably
at the site of the aerial on the hillside east of the glen at about 585
metres. When my leg's out of plaster we'll go and have a look. It
disappeared from xcweather some weeks ago after there was a suggestion
that the recorded wind speeds were too high.

--
Alan White
Mozilla Firefox and Forte Agent.
Twenty-eight miles NW of Glasgow, overlooking Lochs Long and Goil in Argyll, Scotland.
Webcam and weather:- http://windycroft.gt-britain.co.uk/weather

On Thu, 17 Apr 2008 at 13:14:28, Colin Youngs
wrote in uk.sci.weather :

UK max. temps on Thursday http://tinyurl.com/3p6y4p

Crosby, Pembey Sands, Thorney Island and Boscombe Down 11.4°C, West
Freugh and Prestwick 11.5°C, Bracknell 11.6°C, Lusa/Skye and Great
Malvern 11.7°C, Yeovilton 11.8°C, Chivenor 12.2°C, Solent MRSC and
Bournemouth 12.7°C.

12.8C - that's twice in a week I've 'won'.
--
Paul Hyett, Cheltenham (change 'invalid83261' to 'blueyonder' to email me)

On Fri, 18 Apr 2008 06:21:08 GMT, Paul Hyett
wrote:

12.8C - that's twice in a week I've 'won'.

13.1°C here yesterday ;-)

--
Alan White
Mozilla Firefox and Forte Agent.
Twenty-eight miles NW of Glasgow, overlooking Lochs Long and Goil in Argyll, Scotland.
Webcam and weather:- http://windycroft.gt-britain.co.uk/weather