Temperatures a bit more like summer today - Solent MRSC 24.9°C
 

Sunday 15th August 2010

Meteosat 8 satellite picture from Ferdinand Valk’s site at 12.00 UTC
http://www.fvalk.com/images/Day_image/MSG-1200-EUR.jpg

Quite sunny in much of Ireland, Scotland and northern England except
near parts of the east coast. Variable cloud over Wales and the rest
of England. Belgium under frontal cloud.


UK min. temps on Saturday night http://tinyurl.com/3yqapk5

Port Ellen (Islay) 6.2°C, Ballykelly 6.1°C, Castlederg 5.7°C,
Aviemore, West Freugh and Shap 5.4°C, Redesdale 5.1°C, Aboyne and
Drumalbin 4.9°C, Loch Glascarnoch 4.7°C, Tulloch Bridge 3.9°C.

Coningsby and Manston 15.0°C, Bridlington 15.1°C, Holbeach and Donna
Nook 15.2°C, Weybourne 15.7°C.


UK max. temps on Sunday http://tinyurl.com/39lm8ed

Inverbervie 14.4°C, Fair Isle and Loftus 14.5°C, Lerwick 14.6°C,
Rosehearty 15.3°C.

Filton and Thorney Isand 23.5°C, Hereford and Brize Norton 23.6°C,
Carlisle 23.9°C, Yeovilton and Pershore 24.1°C, Bournemouth (Hurn)
24.4°C, Strathallan 24.5°C, St Catherine’s Point 24.7°C, Solent
MRSC 24.9°C.

OGIMET summary http://tinyurl.com/2w5hmjp


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

A few scattered outbreaks of rain near the south coast and in extreme
SE England on Sunday; otherwise mostly dry over Britain.

Rainfall totals in 24 hours ending 18.00 UTC on Sunday http://tinyurl.com/325ea6z

South Uist, Fylingdales, Wittering and Farnborough 1 mm, Pershore and
Church Lawford 2 mm, Trawsgoed 3 mm, Bedford and Thorney Island 4
mm, Portland 6 mm.


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


Colin Youngs
Brussels

Temperatures a bit more like summer today - Solent MRSC 24.9°C
 

On Sun, 15 Aug 2010 12:49:00 -0700 (PDT), Colin Youngs
wrote:

St Catherine’s Point 24.7°C,

Astonishing!

Only beaten by the merely "surprising"

Solent MRSC 24.9°C.

Which should be ashamed of itself for denying St Catherines a rare
opportunity for a summer "warmest in the UK". A mere 23.4 here but the
screen's out of direct sunlight.

--
Dave
Fareham