Meteosat 8 satellite picture from Ferdinand Valk's site at 12.00 UTC
on Friday 16th May
http://www.fvalk.com/images/Day_imag...8-1200-EUR.jpg

NOAA 18 satellite picture from Bernard Burton's site at 12.20 UTC on
Friday 16th May
http://www.woksat.info/etcqe16/qe16-1220-b-uk.html

Meteosat MSG-2 satellite picture from Bernard Burton's site at 12.00
UTC on Friday 16th May
http://www.woksat.info/etcqe16m/qe16-msg-1200-uk.html

Britain mostly cloudy except for the northern half of Scotland. Some
high and medium-level cloud over Belgium with low cloud as well in the
west.


UK min. temps on Thursday night http://tinyurl.com/65wv2s

Aberdeen 3.6°C, Lossiemouth 3.4°C, West Freugh 3.3°C, Castlederg
3.0°C, Shap 2.9°C, Tain Range 2.1°C, Tulloch Bridge 1.9°C,
Aviemore 1.5°C, Loch Glascarnoch 0.6°C, Altnaharra 0.1°C.

Culdrose 10.9°C, Camborne, St Mawgan and Plymouth 11.0°C, Solent
MRSC 11.1°C - limited list only.


UK max. temps on Friday http://tinyurl.com/5k9l5c

Sennybridge 9.4°C, Lake Vyrnwy 9.5°C, Lerwick and Haytor 9.9°C,
Rosehearty and Liscombe 10.2°C.

Portglenone 19.5°C, Aboyne 16.7°C, Lough Fea and Tulloch Bridge
16.9°C, Ballykelly 17.2°C, Glasgow Bishopton 17.4°C, Strathallan
17.6°C, St Angelo 18.3°C, Castlederg 18.4°C.

OGIMET summary http://tinyurl.com/574kaq


Rainfall radar http://www.meteox.com/h.aspx?r=&soort=loop24uur&URL
or http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/uk/radar/

Band of rain from Wales to East Anglia on Friday morning edges slowly
north and gradually dissipates in the afternoon. Showers in Cornwall
in the afternoon.

Rainfall totals in 24 hours ending 18.00 UTC on Friday http://tinyurl.com/5534my

Church Lawford, Brize Norton and Plymouth 8 mm, Great Malvern and
Pershore 10 mm, Hereford, Bedford and Benson 11 mm, Andrewsfield 12
mm, St Mawgan 15 mm.


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


Colin Youngs
Brussels