Meteosat 8 satellite picture from Ferdinand Valk's site at 12.00 UTC on
Thursday 8th October
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 8th October http://www.woksat.info/etcrj08m/rj08-msg-1200-uk.html

NOAA 19 satellite picture from DLR at 13.32 UTC on Thursday 8th October
ftp://taurus.caf.dlr.de/put/wetterbilder/UK/image1.jpg

Quite sunny in most of Britain - clear sky over southern England. Rather
cloudy in parts of Wales and the Midlands. Rather cloudy in the southern
half of Belgium with a strip of clear sky to the north.


UK min. temps on Wednesday night http://tinyurl.com/ydjfts7

Castlederg, Capel Curig, Pembrey Sands, Shawbury and Topcliffe 1.2°C,
Eskdalemuir 1.1°C, Pershore 0.6°C, Trawsgoed -0.2°C, Sennybridge -1.0°C,
Aboyne -1.9°C.

St Catherine's Point and Langdon Bay 10.3°C, Manston 11.4°C, St Mary's
Scilly 11.8°C, Guernsey 13.2°C, Jersey 14.6°C.


UK max. temps on Thursday http://tinyurl.com/ylged4b

Glen Ogle 7.2°C, Lerwick and Baltasound 7.3°C, Fair Isle 8.1°C, Kirkwall
9.2°C.

Portland, Heathrow and Gravesend 15.8°C, London MO 15.9°C, Herstmonceux
16.0°C, St Catherine's Point and Langdon Bay 16.1°C, Bournemouth Hurn
16.2°C, Mumbles and Plymouth 17.1°C, Donna Nook 17.2°C, Solent MRSC
17.8°C.

OGIMET summary http://tinyurl.com/yhjkgjk


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

Showers in N and W Scotland on Thursday morning become scattered in the
afternoon.

Rainfall totals in 24 hours ending 18.00 UTC on Thursday (no map available)

Trawsgoed, Dunkeswell and St Catherine's Point 6 mm, Loch Glascarnoch 7 mm,
Baltasound and Kirkwall 8 mm, Shoeburyness and Manston 9 mm, Herstmonceux
10 mm, Portland 11 mm.


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


Colin Youngs
Brussels