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

NOAA 18 satellite picture from Bernard Burton's site at 13.20 UTC on
Sunday 8th June
http://www.woksat.info/etcqf08/qf08-1320-b-uk.html

Meteosat MSG-2 satellite picture from Bernard Burton's site at 12.00
UTC on Sunday 8th June
http://www.woksat.info/etcqf08m/qf08-msg-1200-uk.html

Broken frontal cloud from Ireland to Scotland. Wales and England
clear except for some high cloud. Broken low cloud over Belgium.


UK min. temps on Saturday night http://tinyurl.com/5cfzzw

Shawbury 6.8°C, Shap 6.6°C, Keswick and Shobdon 6.5°C, Woodford
6.4°C, West Freugh 6.3°C, Pembrey Sands 6.2°C, Hawarden 5.6°C,
Redesdale 5.5°C, Eskdalemuir 5.0°C, Sennybridge 3.9°C.

London MO 14.0°C, Solent MRSC and Thorney Island 14.2°C, Northolt
14.5°C, Heathrow 15.1°C.


UK max. temps on Sunday http://tinyurl.com/5aughm

Fair Isle 13.7°C, Lerwick 14.8°C, Aberdaron and Aberporth 15.0°C,
Kirkwall 15.7°C.

Nottingham Watnall 24.4°C, Bournemouth and Gravesend 24.5°C,
Northolt 24.9°C, London MO 25.0°C, Great Malvern 25.1°C,
Knaresborough Scotton and Church Lawford 25.3°C, Farnborough 25.4°C,
Heathrow 25.5°C, Bracknell 26.6°C, Solent MRSC 26.9°C.

OGIMET summary http://tinyurl.com/5nrazh


Rainfall radar http://www.meteox.com/h.aspx?r=&soort=loop24uur&URL

No sign of rainfall over the British Isles during the day on Sunday.

Rainfall totals in 24 hours ending 18.00 UTC on Sunday http://tinyurl.com/5j2g2o

Lerwick, Kirkwall, Tiree, Andrewsfield and Shoeburyness 0.4 mm, South
Uist 0.8 mm, Aultbea 1 mm, Lusa/Skye 5 mm.


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


Colin Youngs
Brussels

On Jun 8, 8:53�pm, Colin Youngs
wrote:
Meteosat 8 satellite picture from Ferdinand Valk's site at 12.00 UTC
on Sunday 8th Junehttp://www.fvalk.com/images/Day_image/METEOSAT-8-1200-EUR.jpg

NOAA 18 satellite picture from Bernard Burton's site at 13.20 UTC on
Sunday 8th Junehttp://www.woksat.info/etcqf08/qf08-1320-b-uk.html

Meteosat MSG-2 satellite picture from Bernard Burton's site at 12.00
UTC on Sunday 8th Junehttp://www.woksat.info/etcqf08m/qf08-msg-1200-uk.html

Broken frontal cloud from Ireland to Scotland. � Wales and England
clear except for some high cloud. � Broken low cloud over Belgium.

UK min. temps on Saturday night �http://tinyurl.com/5cfzzw

Shawbury 6.8�C, �Shap 6.6�C, �Keswick and Shobdon 6.5�C, �Woodford
6.4�C, �West Freugh 6.3�C, �Pembrey Sands 6.2�C, �Hawarden 5.6�C,
Redesdale 5.5�C, �Eskdalemuir 5.0�C, �Sennybridge 3.9�C.

London MO 14.0�C, �Solent MRSC and Thorney Island 14.2�C, �Northolt
14.5�C, �Heathrow 15.1�C.

UK max. temps on Sunday �http://tinyurl.com/5aughm

Fair Isle 13.7�C, �Lerwick 14.8�C, �Aberdaron and Aberporth 15.0�C,
Kirkwall 15.7�C.

Nottingham Watnall 24.4�C, �Bournemouth and Gravesend 24.5�C,
Northolt 24.9�C, �London MO 25.0�C, �Great Malvern 25.1�C,
Knaresborough Scotton and Church Lawford 25.3�C, �Farnborough 25.4�C,
Heathrow 25.5�C, �Bracknell 26.6�C, �Solent MRSC 26.9�C.

OGIMET summary �http://tinyurl.com/5nrazh

Rainfall radar � �http://www.meteox.com/h.aspx?r=&soort=loop24uur&URL

No sign of rainfall over the British Isles during the day on Sunday.

Rainfall totals in 24 hours ending 18.00 UTC on Sunday �http://tinyurl.com/5j2g2o

Lerwick, Kirkwall, Tiree, Andrewsfield and Shoeburyness 0.4 mm, �South
Uist 0.8 mm, �Aultbea 1 mm, �Lusa/Skye 5 mm.

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

Colin Youngs
Brussels

Suggest that the Solent reading be taken with some caution.
I was in Lee, and noticed that the door to the thermometer box was
open.
Although the sun wasn't shining in direct, it might well have affected
the readings.

On Sun, 8 Jun 2008 14:42:48 -0700 (PDT), Mike Waller
wrote:

On Jun 8, 8:53?pm, Colin Youngs
wrote:

UK max. temps on Sunday ?http://tinyurl.com/5aughm

Fair Isle 13.7?C, ?Lerwick 14.8?C, ?Aberdaron and Aberporth 15.0?C,
Kirkwall 15.7?C.

Nottingham Watnall 24.4?C, ?Bournemouth and Gravesend 24.5?C,
Northolt 24.9?C, ?London MO 25.0?C, ?Great Malvern 25.1?C,
Knaresborough Scotton and Church Lawford 25.3?C, ?Farnborough 25.4?C,
Heathrow 25.5?C, ?Bracknell 26.6?C, ?Solent MRSC 26.9?C.

Suggest that the Solent reading be taken with some caution.
I was in Lee, and noticed that the door to the thermometer box was
open.
Although the sun wasn't shining in direct, it might well have affected
the readings.

Looks like the Met Office may have flagged the 1500 and 1600 readings
as suspect - the usual red bars at
http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/...er_graphs.html
are "whitened" out but the reported temperatures are visible. The
sequence is:

BST - Deg C - Wind Dir
1200 22.9 N-NNE
1300 24.6 N-NNE
1400 25.3 N-NNE
1500 26.6 N-NNE
1600 26.8 N-NNE
1700 23.0 ESE

My own maximum 5 miles inland was at 1627 BST so that ties in with
Solent and the max temp here was 24.9, so 2.0 deg C lower, which is
not inconsistent with the usual gap between my _completely shaded_
screen and Solent MRSC, with a lightish offshore wind (9 to 14 mph) in
sunny conditions at this time of year.

The drop in temperature between 1600 and 1700 is consistent with the
change of wind direction from offshore to onshore - I've been there on
other occasions when this has happened (usually a sea Breeze) and a
rapid 3.8 degrees C drop is not unusual when this happens in those
conditions.

So as far as the open screen door is concerned, yes it may have
affected the readings but if so, I'd say by less than a degree C and
quite possibly not at all. If you hadn't mentioned this incident, I
wouldn't have been suspicious of Sunday's maximum there.

Dave
Fareham

On 9 Jun, 00:34, Dave Ludlow
wrote:
Looks like the Met Office may have flagged the 1500 and 1600 readings
as suspect - the usual red bars athttp://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/uk/se/solent_latest_weather_graph...
are "whitened" out but the reported temperatures are visible.

I think that's just sloppy coding on the website. Those bars are
supposed to be 14 units high - see image filename
http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/lib/imag...ph/grid14r.gif - but the
site only has graphics up to 13 units high:
http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/lib/imag...ph/grid13r.gif . They've
chosen the wrong scale for the graph, in other words, and those two
hourly readings have gone off the scale.