MSG-1 satellite picture from F. Valk's site at 12.00 UTC on Friday
http://www.fvalk.com/images/Day_imag...4-1200-eur.jpg

NOAA 16 VIS satellite pictures from Bernard Burton's site at 12.58 UTC on
Friday
http://www.btinternet.com/~wokingham...258-b-uk-n.JPG
http://www.btinternet.com/~wokingham...258-c-uk-s.JPG

NOAA 16 VIS satellite picture from Dundee at 12.59 UTC on Friday
http://makeashorterlink.com/?I1A125456

NOAA 16 VIS satellite picture from DLR at 12.49 UTC on Friday
http://www.dfd.dlr.de/ftp/put/wetter...0241249.uk.jpg

Masses of showers over the sea around the British Isles - some moving inland
across northern Scotland and eastern and SW England and Wales. Area of
cloud associated with a trough over Belgium and the Netherlands - SE
Belgium still sunny and NW Netherlands becoming brighter.


UK min. temps on Thursday night
http://www.medvale.demon.co.uk/weath...s/mn241003.jpg

Scotland -3 to 5°C; Northern Isles 3 to 5°C; Western Isles 1 to 4°C;
Northern England -3 to 4°C; Midlands -3 to 2°C; East Anglia 0 to 3°C; SE
England -5 to 3°C; SW England -3 to 4°C.

Eskdalemuir -3.0°C, Pembrey Sands -3.4°C, Trawsgoed and Yeovilton -4.0°C,
Sennybridge -4.2°C, Biggar and Redhill -4.8°C, Benson -4.9°C.

Bridlington 4.1°C, Boulmer 4.2°C, Ronaldsway 4.3°C, Machrihanish 4.9°C,
Guernsey 6.9°C, St Mary's 7.3°C.


UK max. temps on Friday
http://www.medvale.demon.co.uk/weath...s/mx241003.jpg

Scotland and Northern England 7 to 11°C; Northern Isles 8 to 10°C; Western
Isles 10 to 11°C; Midlands 9 to 11°C; East Anglia 8 to 9°C; SE England 8
to 11°C; SW England 9 to 12°C.

Copley 6.9°C, Lerwick and Aviemore 7.5°C, Eskdalemuir 7.9°C, Aberdeen and
Langdon Bay 8.5°C, Wattisham 8.6°C, Waddington 8.7°C.

Jersey 11.5°C, Portland 11.6°C, Pembrey Sands 11.7°C, Cardiff WC and
Guernsey 12.0°C, Plymouth and Chivenor 12.1°C, St Mary's 12.7°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

Showers in the North Sea on Thursday night affect the adjacent coast at
times. Some showers move down through the Irish Sea into Wales later.
Showers continue in northern Scotland and near the east coast on Friday and
some spread from Wales into SW England later in the afternoon. Thunder in
the Channel Islands in the evening.

Rhyl and Llanbedr 4 mm, Altnaharra and Bridlington 4.6 mm, Milford Haven
6.0 mm, Lusa/Skye and Weybourne 6.4 mm, Ronaldsway 6.5 mm, Capel Curig
7.0 mm, Aultbea 7.4 mm, Coltishall 8.8 mm, Loftus 13.0 mm


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


Colin Youngs
Brussels