Meteosat 8 satellite picture from Ferdinand Valk's site at 12.00 UTC
on Thursday 10th July
http://www.fvalk.com/images/Day_imag...8-1200-EUR.jpg

Meteosat MSG-2 satellite picture from Bernard Burton's site at 12.00
UTC on Thursday 10th July
http://www.woksat.info/etcqg10m/qg10-msg-1200-uk.html

NOAA 18 satellite picture from Bernard Burton's site at 12.49 UTC on
Thursday 10th July
http://www.woksat.info/etcqg10/qg10-1249-b-uk.html

Frontal cloud over Ireland and Scotland; broken cloud over England and
Wales. Another band of frontal cloud stretches from northern France
through western Belgium to the Netherlands and Germany.


UK min. temps on Wednesday night http://tinyurl.com/5ty5km

Baltasound, Fair Isle and Strathallan 10.4°C, Aboyne and Altnaharra
10.3°C, Lerwick and Tulloch Bridge 10.0°C, Aviemore 9.9°C, Kinloss
9.7°C, Lusa/Skye 9.1°C, Loch Glascarnoch 8.6°C, Glen Ogle 7.7°C.

Crosby 14.6°C, Shoeburyness 14.7°C, St Catherine’s Point 14.8°C,
Solent MRSC and Manston 15.0°C.


UK max. temps on Thursday http://tinyurl.com/5tzgb3

Lerwick and Glen Ogle 11.3°C, Inverbervie 11.6°C, Aboyne 11.9°C,
Aviemore 12.1°C, Fair Isle 12.7°C.

Wattisham and Shoeburyness 21.1°C, Manston 21.2°C, Wainfleet and
Wittering 21.3°C, London MO 21.4°C, Coningsby 21.6°C, Marham
21.7°C, Weybourne 21.8°C, Holbeach 22.0°C, Gravesend 22.2°C.

OGIMET summary http://tinyurl.com/6fzr88


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

Rain moves slowly north over Scotland on Thursday morning but is
mainly confined to the east in the afternoon, declining in extent and
intensity. Some showers over Wales and England later in the
afternoon and in the evening but mostly dry in the SE.

Rainfall totals in 24 hours ending 18.00 UTC on Thursday
http://tinyurl.com/6k7xc5

Ballypatrick and Glasgow Bishopton 24 mm, Prestwick 25 mm, West
Freugh 26 mm, St Angelo 27 mm, Copley 29.0 mm, St Bees Head 30 mm,
Boulmer 31 mm, Spadeadam 33 mm, Redesdale 38 mm, Dundrennan 39 mm,
Leuchars 41 mm, Eskdalemuir 49 mm.


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


Colin Youngs
Brussels

On Thu, 10 Jul 2008 at 13:31:23, Colin Youngs
wrote in uk.sci.weather :

UK max. temps on Thursday http://tinyurl.com/5tzgb3

Wattisham and Shoeburyness 21.1°C, Manston 21.2°C, Wainfleet and
Wittering 21.3°C, London MO 21.4°C, Coningsby 21.6°C, Marham
21.7°C, Weybourne 21.8°C, Holbeach 22.0°C, Gravesend 22.2°C.

Is there something unusual about the Gravesend site - it seems to top
the list more often than I'd expect?
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Paul Hyett, Cheltenham (change 'invalid83261' to 'blueyonder' to email me)