MSG-1 satellite picture from F. Valk's site at 12.00 UTC on Friday
http://www.fvalk.com/images/Day_imag...0-1200-eur.jpg

NOAA 16 VIS satellite pictures from Bernard Burton's site at 13.55 UTC on
Friday
http://www.btinternet.com/~wokingham...355-b-uk-n.JPG
http://www.btinternet.com/~wokingham...355-c-uk-s.JPG

NOAA 16 VIS satellite picture from Dundee at 13.57 UTC on Friday
http://makeashorterlink.com/?V5DB25C26

NOAA 16 VIS satellite picture from DLR at 13.48 UTC on Friday
http://www.dfd.dlr.de/ftp/put/wetter...0101348.uk.jpg

Showers to the north and west of Scotland. Cold front cloud over southern
England but broken cloud with orographic waves over the rest of Britain.
Belgium and SE Netherlands cloudy but the rest of the Netherlands has broken
cloud.


UK min. temps on Thursday night
http://www.medvale.demon.co.uk/weath...s/mn101003.jpg

Scotland 8 to 11°C; Northern Isles 8 to 9°C; Western Isles 9 to 11°C;
Northern England 9 to 12°C; Midlands and SE England 11 to 14°C; East
Anglia 11 to 13°C; SW England 12 to 14°C.

Spadeadam 7.3°C, Loch Glascarnoch 7.1°C, Fylingdales 7.0°C, Carterhouse
and Boltshope Park 6.9°C, Glen Ogle (564 m) 5.1°C, Great Dun Fell (847 m)
4.1°C, Bealach na Bà (773 m) 2.6°C.

Camborne and Lyneham 13.3°C, Plymouth 13.5°C, Yeovilton, St Mary's and
Guernsey 13.7°C, St Mawgan 14.0°C, Solent MRSC 14.1°C, St Athan 14.3°C.


UK max. temps on Friday
http://www.medvale.demon.co.uk/weath...s/mx101003.jpg

Scotland 10 to 15°C; Northern Isles 11 to 12°C; Western Isles 11 to 13°C;
Northern England 12 to 16°C; Midlands 14 to 17°C; East Anglia 16 to 18°C;
SE England 17 to 19°C; SW England 14 to 19°C.

Lerwick 10.9°C, Stornoway 11.2°C, Kirkwall 11.5°C, Eskdalemuir 11.6°C,
Wick 11.9°C, South Uist 12.1°C, Copley 12.2°C, Aviemore 12.5°C.

Langdon Bay 18.7°C, Thorney Island 18.8°C, London WC 18.9°C, Bedford,
Farnborough and Northolt 19.0°C, Yeovilton 19.1°C, Heathrow 19.3°C,
Bournemouth 20.1°C.


Rainfall radar http://www.westwind.ch/w_0rad.php United Kingdom -30h ANIM
Rainfall radar stills http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/live/brradar.shtml

Widespread showers in north and west Scotland on Thursday night with some
moving from NW England into Wales. Scattered showers continue in the NW on
Friday morning with a few outbreaks of light rain moving south through
southern England. Showers widespread again in northern Scotland on Friday
afternoon.

South Uist and Liscombe 5 mm, Stornoway 6 mm, Sennybridge 6.4 mm, Tulloch
Bridge 7.0 mm, Fair Isle 8 mm, Kirkwall 8.2°C, Lerwick 8.6 mm,
Baltasound 9.0 mm, Aberporth 9.3 mm, Trawsgoed 9.8 mm, Sella Ness 11.0
mm, Altnaharra 13.8 mm.


Location of some UK stations
http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/education/data/ukobs.html


Colin Youngs
Brussels