Thursday 21st 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/etcsj21m/sj21-msg-1200-uk.html

NOAA 19 satellite picture from Bernard Burton's site at 12.21 UTC
http://www.woksat.info/etcsj21/sj21-1221-b-uk.html

Broken cloud at various levels over the British Isles. Frontal cloud over
northern Scotland. Fairly sunny in east and SE England and in Devon and
Cornwall. Sunny in Belgium.


UK min. temps on Wednesday night http://tinyurl.com/36com8e

Topcliffe, Middle Wallop and Thorney Island -2.8°C, Pershore -2.9°C,
Yeovilton and Shoreham -3.2°C, Hereford -3.4°C, Larkhill -3.5°C,
Farnborough -4.0°C, Bournemouth (Hurn) -4.4°C, Benson and
Charlwood -4.7°C.

South Uist and Jersey 6.6°C, St Bees Head and Guernsey 6.7°C, Walney
Island and St Mary's (Scilly) 6.8°C, Crosby 7.6°C.


UK max. temps on Thursday http://tinyurl.com/2wzglwx

Loch Glascarnoch 5.0°C, Lerwick 5.9°C, Aboyne and Altnaharra 6.0°C, Wick
6.1°C, Baltasound 6.2°C.

Leuchars, Pershore, Plymouth and Bournemouth (Hurn) 13.0°C, Shobdon 13.1°C,
Ballykelly 13.2°C, Strathallan, Mumbles and St Mary's (Scilly) 13.3°C,
Exeter 13.6°C.

OGIMET summary http://tinyurl.com/35459kb


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

Rain in northern and central Scoland on Thursday. Some showers in Wales in
the morning and around the Bristol Channel area later.

Rainfall totals in 24 hours ending 18.00 UTC on Thursday
http://tinyurl.com/32ebxrx

Fair Isle, Altnaharra, Drumalbin and Prestwick 7 mm, South Uist and Keswick
8 mm, Aultbea and Lusa (Skye) 10 mm, Aviemore 13 mm, Port Ellen (Islay)
15 mm, Tulloch Bridge 19 mm, Kirkwall 20 mm, Loch Glascarnoch 21 mm.


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


Colin Youngs
Brussels

"Colin Youngs" wrote ...
Thursday 21st October 2010
snip
UK min. temps on Wednesday night http://tinyurl.com/36com8e
Topcliffe, Middle Wallop and Thorney Island -2.8°C,
Pershore -2.9°C,
Yeovilton and Shoreham -3.2°C, Hereford -3.4°C, Larkhill -3.5°C,
Farnborough -4.0°C, Bournemouth (Hurn) -4.4°C, Benson and
Charlwood -4.7°C.

.... Hurn's 09-09 min ended up -4.9°C (see thread elsewhere), whilst
Benson comparable minimum was declared to be that shown above.

Martin.

--
Martin Rowley
West Moors, East Dorset (UK): 17m (56ft) amsl
Lat: 50.82N Long: 01.88W
NGR: SU 082 023

Martin Rowley wrote:

... Hurn's 09-09 min ended up -4.9°C (see thread elsewhere), whilst
Benson comparable minimum was declared to be that shown above

This was mentioned the Bournemouth Echo :

http://tinyurl.com/2uypolz

However I see someone has challenged this claiming -5.7 at Chesham but
I've no idea how valid this is!
--
The ex-Meteorologist formerly known as Purbeckview

"Lindisfarne Poacher" wrote ...
Martin Rowley wrote:

... Hurn's 09-09 min ended up -4.9°C (see thread elsewhere), whilst
Benson comparable minimum was declared to be that shown above

This was mentioned the Bournemouth Echo :

http://tinyurl.com/2uypolz

However I see someone has challenged this claiming -5.7 at Chesham
but
I've no idea how valid this is!
--
The ex-Meteorologist formerly known as Purbeckview


.... knowing the area around Chesham etc., quite well, I can well
believe that value!

It's one of those occasions where it's down to chance where the
thermometers/sensors happen to be; obviously we'd need to know what
the exposure was, what instrumentation was being used, calibration,
etc., etc.

Martin.


--
Martin Rowley
West Moors, East Dorset (UK): 17m (56ft) amsl
Lat: 50.82N Long: 01.88W
NGR: SU 082 023