Meteosat 8 satellite picture from Ferdinand Valk's site at 12.00 UTC
on Thursday 31st 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 31st July
http://www.woksat.info/etcqg31m/qg31-msg-1200-uk.html

NOAA 18 satellite picture from Bernard Burton's site at 12.31 UTC on
Thursday 31st July
http://www.woksat.info/etcqg31/qg31-1231-b-uk.html

Dense frontal cloud over western Britain but still some brightness in
the NE and SE. Some high cloud over Belgium.


UK min. temps on Wednesday night http://tinyurl.com/6myu3s

Stornoway 12.9°C, Spadeadam and Bedford 12.8°C, Bournemouth 12.7°C,
Fair Isle, Kirkwall, Copley and Benson 12.6°C, Boulmer 12.5°C,
Church Fenton 12.4°C, Leconfield 12.2°C, Cranwell and Charlwood
12.1°C, Redesdale 11.7°C.

Weybourne 17.5°C, Crosby 17.7°C, Walney Island and Solent MRSC
17.8°C, Carlisle and Keswick 18.2°C, London MO 20.0°C.


UK max. temps on Thursday http://tinyurl.com/6nz4w7

Lough Fea 15.5°C, Ballypatrick 16.1°C, Fair Isle 16.2°C, Glenanne
16.7°C, St Mary’s and Liscombe 17.1°C.

Wattisham 26.0°C, Coningsby 26.6°C, Weybourne 26.9°C, Andrewsfield
27.1°C, London MO 27.9°C, Marham and Manston 28.0°C, Gravesend
28.2°C, Langdon Bay 28.4°C, Holbeach 29.5°C.

OGIMET summary http://tinyurl.com/6l3uyt


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

Widespread outbreaks of rain move over Britain from the SW on Thursday
afternoon.

Rainfall totals in 24 hours ending 18.00 UTC on Thursday
http://tinyurl.com/6lm4s9

Warcop Range and St Mary’s 20 mm, Copley 20.2 mm, Glenanne and
Scampton 22 mm, Camborne 23 mm, Leeming and Waddington 24 mm,
Portglenone and Machrihanish 25 mm, Cranwell 26 mm, Ballypatrick 27
mm, Lough Fea 29 mm, Plymouth 33 mm.


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


Colin Youngs
Brussels

On Thu, 31 Jul 2008 at 12:34:48, Colin Youngs
wrote in uk.sci.weather :

UK max. temps on Thursday http://tinyurl.com/6nz4w7

Wattisham 26.0°C, Coningsby 26.6°C, Weybourne 26.9°C, Andrewsfield
27.1°C, London MO 27.9°C, Marham and Manston 28.0°C, Gravesend
28.2°C, Langdon Bay 28.4°C, Holbeach 29.5°C.

You mean the high temperatures actually *turned up* somewhere?

From the forecasts I saw early yesterday, they were playing them down
significantly.
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Paul Hyett, Cheltenham (change 'invalid83261' to 'blueyonder' to email me)