Saturday 9th October 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

Meteosat MSG-2 satellite picture from Bernard Burton's site at 12.00 UTC
http://www.woksat.info/etcsj09m/sj09-msg-1200-uk.html

NOAA 19 satellite picture from Bernard Burton's site at 12.54 UTC
http://www.woksat.info/etcsj09/sj09-1254-b-uk.html

Extensive low cloud over Britain. Sunny towards the west coast and in
western Scotland, and near the coast of southern England and East Anglia.
Frontal cloud to the SW of Britain. Sunny and clear in Belgium.


UK min. temps on Friday night http://tinyurl.com/33ro3e7

Aboyne, Inverbervie and St Bees Head 11.1°C, Baltasound and Tain Range
11.0°C, Lerwick and Spadeadam 10.7°C, Kinloss 10.6°C, Fair Isle 10.4°C,
Loch Glascarnoch 10.3°C, Altnaharra 10.0°C, Glen Ogle 8.7°C, Aviemore
7.1°C.

Plymouth and Heathrow 15.6°C, Jersey 15.7°C, Yeovilton 15.8°C, Mumbles,
Camborne and Guernsey 16.0°C.


UK max. temps on Saturday http://tinyurl.com/38nmckp

Glen Ogle 8.9°C, Spadeadam and Copley 11.0°C, Inverbervie 11.3°C, Aboyne
11.4°C, Redesdale 11.6°C.

Thorney Island 19.4°C, Herstmonceux and Shoreham 19.7°C, St Bees Head
19.8°C, Bournemouth (Hurn) 20.2°C, Lusa (Skye) 20.6°C, Aultbea, Solent
MRSC and Guernsey 20.9°C, Jersey 22.9°C.

OGIMET summary http://tinyurl.com/3y5uog2


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

Nothing shows up on the radar over Britain on Saturday.

Rainfall totals in 24 hours ending 18.00 UTC on Saturday
http://tinyurl.com/3ynbl7f

Leuchars and Charterhall 0.4 mm, Spadeadam, Redesdale and Fylingdales 0.6
mm, Copley 0.7 mm, Bingley 0.8 mm, Aberdeen (Dyce), Inverbervie and
Albemarle 1 mm.


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


Colin Youngs
Brussels

In article ,
Colin Youngs writes:
UK min. temps on Friday night http://tinyurl.com/33ro3e7

Aboyne, Inverbervie and St Bees Head 11.1°C, Baltasound and Tain Range
11.0°C, Lerwick and Spadeadam 10.7°C, Kinloss 10.6°C, Fair Isle 10.4°C,
Loch Glascarnoch 10.3°C, Altnaharra 10.0°C, Glen Ogle 8.7°C, Aviemore
7.1°C.

Plymouth and Heathrow 15.6°C, Jersey 15.7°C, Yeovilton 15.8°C, Mumbles,
Camborne and Guernsey 16.0°C.


UK max. temps on Saturday http://tinyurl.com/38nmckp

Glen Ogle 8.9°C, Spadeadam and Copley 11.0°C, Inverbervie 11.3°C, Aboyne
11.4°C, Redesdale 11.6°C.

Thorney Island 19.4°C, Herstmonceux and Shoreham 19.7°C, St Bees Head
19.8°C, Bournemouth (Hurn) 20.2°C, Lusa (Skye) 20.6°C, Aultbea, Solent
MRSC and Guernsey 20.9°C, Jersey 22.9°C.

A diurnal range of just 0.2°C at Glen Ogle. That's quite impressive,
assuming that the values are correct.
--
John Hall
"I look upon it, that he who does not mind his belly,
will hardly mind anything else."
Dr Samuel Johnson (1709-84)

John Hall wrote:

In article ,
Colin Youngs writes:
UK min. temps on Friday night http://tinyurl.com/33ro3e7

Aboyne, Inverbervie and St Bees Head 11.1°C, Baltasound and Tain Range
11.0°C, Lerwick and Spadeadam 10.7°C, Kinloss 10.6°C, Fair Isle 10.4°C,
Loch Glascarnoch 10.3°C, Altnaharra 10.0°C, Glen Ogle 8.7°C, Aviemore
7.1°C.

Plymouth and Heathrow 15.6°C, Jersey 15.7°C, Yeovilton 15.8°C, Mumbles,
Camborne and Guernsey 16.0°C.


UK max. temps on Saturday http://tinyurl.com/38nmckp

Glen Ogle 8.9°C, Spadeadam and Copley 11.0°C, Inverbervie 11.3°C, Aboyne
11.4°C, Redesdale 11.6°C.

Thorney Island 19.4°C, Herstmonceux and Shoreham 19.7°C, St Bees Head
19.8°C, Bournemouth (Hurn) 20.2°C, Lusa (Skye) 20.6°C, Aultbea, Solent
MRSC and Guernsey 20.9°C, Jersey 22.9°C.

A diurnal range of just 0.2°C at Glen Ogle. That's quite impressive,
assuming that the values are correct.


It's just a quirk of the reporting system. The 1800-0600 min, reported at 0600
today was 8.7 and the 0600-1800 max, reported at 1800 today was 8.9, so the
figures given by Colin are correct. However, the max for the 24 hours ending at
1800 today was at least 10.5 as that was the temperature on the 1900
observation yesterday. The min for the 24 hours ending at 1800 today was 7.3 or
slightly lower as that was the temperature reported at 1800 today. So, the true
range in the 24 hours ending at 1800 today was at least 3.2 degrees.

Unfortunately, in the winter half of the year the 1800-0600 min temps and
0600-1800 max temps reported in the SYNOPs will often not give the true 24-hour
max/min temps because it is not at all unusual for the 24-hour max to occur at
night or the 24-hour min to occur in the day. In particular, in winter the min
temp will often occur after 0600 and so is not reported in the SYNOPs. There's
no perfect answer to this but the climatological day in this country is taken
as 0900-0900z

--
Norman Lynagh
Tideswell, Derbyshire
303m a.s.l.

On 9 Oct, 23:18, "Norman" wrote:
John Hall wrote:
In article ,
*Colin Youngs writes:
UK min. temps on Friday night *http://tinyurl.com/33ro3e7

Aboyne, Inverbervie and St Bees Head 11.1°C, *Baltasound and Tain Range
11.0°C, *Lerwick and Spadeadam 10.7°C, *Kinloss 10.6°C, *Fair Isle 10.4°C,
Loch Glascarnoch 10.3°C, *Altnaharra 10.0°C, *Glen Ogle 8.7°C, *Aviemore
7.1°C.

Plymouth and Heathrow 15.6°C, *Jersey 15.7°C, *Yeovilton 15.8°C, *Mumbles,
Camborne and Guernsey 16.0°C.

UK max. temps on Saturday *http://tinyurl.com/38nmckp

Glen Ogle 8.9°C, *Spadeadam and Copley 11.0°C, *Inverbervie 11.3°C, *Aboyne
11.4°C, *Redesdale 11.6°C.

Thorney Island 19.4°C, *Herstmonceux and Shoreham 19.7°C, *St Bees Head
19.8°C, *Bournemouth (Hurn) 20.2°C, *Lusa (Skye) 20.6°C, *Aultbea, Solent
MRSC and Guernsey 20.9°C, *Jersey 22.9°C.

A diurnal range of just 0.2°C at Glen Ogle. That's quite impressive,
assuming that the values are correct.

It's just a quirk of the reporting system. The 1800-0600 min, reported at 0600
today was 8.7 and the 0600-1800 max, reported at 1800 today was 8.9, so the
figures given by Colin are correct. However, the max for the 24 hours ending at
1800 today was at least 10.5 as that was the temperature on the 1900
observation yesterday. The min for the 24 hours ending at 1800 today was 7.3 or
slightly lower as that was the temperature reported at 1800 today. So, the true
range in the 24 hours ending at 1800 today was at least 3.2 degrees.

Unfortunately, in the winter half of the year the 1800-0600 min temps and
0600-1800 max temps reported in the SYNOPs will often not give the true 24-hour
max/min temps because it is not at all unusual for the 24-hour max to occur at
night or the 24-hour min to occur in the day. In particular, in winter the min
temp will often occur after 0600 and so is not reported in the SYNOPs. There's
no perfect answer to this but the climatological day in this country is taken
as 0900-0900z

--
Norman Lynagh
Tideswell, Derbyshire
303m a.s.l.- Hide quoted text -

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Parts of west Cornwall saw the maximum temperature yesterday (midnight
to midnight) in the very early hours. E.g. 17.2C @ 00:40 in St Ives.
In Penzance the 0900-0900 (on 9th) min was a record breaking 16.5, by
1100 it was 16.1. (It did subsequently rie during a brief brighter
spell to 17.1)

The wind died down just in time to prevent any real problems yesterday
evenings high tide. (As fas as I'm aware) Gusts to 50mph were
widespread yesterday, even well inland, and from the nasty easterly
direction.

Graham
Penzance