Meteosat 8 satellite picture from Ferdinand Valk's site at 12.00 UTC on
Wednesday 1st 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
Wednesday 1st July http://www.woksat.info/etcrg01m/rg01-msg-1200-uk.html

NOAA 18 satellite picture from Bernard Burton's site at 12.31 UTC on
Wednesday 1st July http://www.woksat.info/etcrg01/rg01-1231-b-uk.html

Frontal cloud over Ireland and western Scotland. Sea fog on the coast of
East Anglia. Seems to be a storm over NE England. Sunny in western
Belgium with shallow convection to the east.


UK min. temps on Tuesday night http://tinyurl.com/nw9mk4

Lerwick and Loch Glascarnoch 12.9°C, Holbeach, Wattisham and Langdon Bay
12.8°C, Bridlington 12.5°C, Baltasound and Wick 11.7°C, Kirkwall 11.6°C,
Tain Range 11.1°C.

Keswick 18.5°C, Carlisle and Benson 18.7°C, Coleshill 18.8°C, Brize
Norton 18.9°C, Coventry Bablake 19.2°C.


UK max. temps on Wednesday http://tinyurl.com/n7o2k2

Bridlington 15.3°C, South Uist 16.5°C, Lerwick 17.6°C, Weybourne 17.7°C,
Fair Isle 17.9°C.

Boscombe Down 29.5°C, Middle Wallop and Northolt 29.8°C, Pershore 29.9°C,
Odiham 30.0°C, Filton 30.1°C, Farnborough 30.3°C, Benson and Brize Norton
30.4°C, Heathrow 30.9°C.

OGIMET summary http://tinyurl.com/mzq354


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

Some showers and thunderstorms develop in northern Britain on Wednesday
afternoon and in Wales in the evening.

Rainfall totals in 24 hours ending 18.00 UTC on Wednesday
http://tinyurl.com/lyv9zu

Lough Fea, Glenanne, Stornoway and Redesdale 5 mm, Edinburgh Gogarbank 7
mm, Kinloss 9 mm, Lossiemouth 16 mm, Spadeadam 18 mm, Albemarle 37 mm.


Location of some UK stations
http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/educatio...r_data_uk.html


Colin Youngs
Brussels

On 1 July, 21:08, "Colin Youngs" wrote:

Boscombe Down 29.5°C, *Middle Wallop and Northolt 29.8°C, *Pershore 29.9°C,
Odiham 30.0°C, *Filton 30.1°C, *Farnborough 30.3°C, *Benson and Brize Norton
30.4°C, *Heathrow 30.9°C.


I'm slightly surprised nowhere was hotter than this in the synop
network: my max (Stevenson screen, open location) 31.5°C today, and
for what it's worth my car thermometer was showuing 31-32°C in Reading
this afternoon.

Hottest day here since July 2006. That will take some beating, of
course ;-)

This after a min of 17.8°C here, highest also since July 2006 (only
three hotter nights in the last 10 years).

--
Stephen Burt
Stratfield Mortimer, Berkshire

On Wed, 1 Jul 2009 at 22:08:43, Colin Youngs wrote
in uk.sci.weather :

UK max. temps on Wednesday http://tinyurl.com/n7o2k2

Boscombe Down 29.5°C, Middle Wallop and Northolt 29.8°C, Pershore 29.9°C,
Odiham 30.0°C, Filton 30.1°C, Farnborough 30.3°C, Benson and Brize Norton
30.4°C, Heathrow 30.9°C.

I'm surprised it didn't get hotter than *this*.

30.4C here, BTW.
--
Paul Hyett, Cheltenham (change 'invalid83261' to 'blueyonder' to email me)