Meteosat 8 satellite picture from Ferdinand Valk's site at 12.00 UTC on
Saturday 17th April http://www.fvalk.com/images/Day_image/MSG-1200-EUR.jpg

Meteosat MSG-2 satellite picture from Bernard Burton's site at 12.00 UTC on
Saturday 17th April http://www.woksat.info/etcsd17m/sd17-msg-1200-uk.html

NOAA 19 satellite picture from Bernard Burton's site at 12.44 UTC on
Saturday 17th April http://www.woksat.info/etcsd17/sd17-1244-b-uk.html

England and Wales more or less clear of cloud. Broken cloud over Scotland.
Vast area of continental Europe under clear skies.


UK min. temps on Friday night http://tinyurl.com/y2qtxjz

Shobdon -1.0°C, Farnborough -1.4°C, Pershore and Andrewsfield -1.6°C,
Castlederg and Hereford -1.7°C, West Freugh -2.1°C, Sennybridge -2.3°C,
Exeter, Bournemouth Hurn and Benson -2.6°C.

Rosehearty 7.0°C, Kinloss 7.1°C, South Uist 7.3°C, St Mary's Scilly
7.6°C, Tiree 7.7°C.


UK max. temps on Saturday http://tinyurl.com/y7an5zv

Glen Ogle 6.5°C, Lerwick 7.3°C, Fair Isle 7.6°C, Kirkwall 8.0°C,
Altnaharra 8.5°C.

Marham 17.7°C, Coleshill, Waddington and Northolt 17.8°C, Bridlington
17.9°C, Coningsby, Scampton, Donna Nook and Wainfleet 18.1°C, Holbeach
18.3°C.

OGIMET summary http://tinyurl.com/y25fdo3


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

Rain in northern Scotland on Saturday afternoon and evening.

Rainfall totals in 24 hours ending 18.00 UTC on Saturday
http://tinyurl.com/y3q6v5n

Kinloss and Lossiemouth 2 mm, Lusa/Skye 3 mm, Wick 4 mm, Stornoway and
Aultbea 5 mm, Lerwick, Altnaharra and Loch Glascarnoch 6 mm, Kirkwall 8
mm.


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


Colin Youngs
Brussels

On Sat, 17 Apr 2010 at 21:30:32, Colin Youngs
wrote in uk.sci.weather :

Holbeach
18.3°C.

I equalled that yesterday.
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Paul Hyett, Cheltenham (change 'invalid83261' to 'blueyonder' to email me)