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

NOAA 16 VIS satellite pictures from Bernard Burton's site at 12.54 UTC on
Thursday
http://www.btinternet.com/~wokingham...254-b-uk-n.JPG
http://www.btinternet.com/~wokingham...254-c-uk-s.JPG

NOAA 16 VIS satellite picture from Dundee at 12.56 UTC on Thursday
http://makeashorterlink.com/?B2D661996

NOAA 16 VIS satellite picture from DLR at 12.45 UTC on Thursday
http://www.dfd.dlr.de/ftp/put/wetter...1201245.uk.jpg

England and Wales still under extensive frontal cloud but much brighter
behind the cold front over Ireland and Scotland. Low Countries still also
mostly cloudy.


No temperatures from
http://www.thisisbournemouth.co.uk/d...er/minmax.html again today
so the extremes are taken from the synops only and the list is very
incomplete.

UK min. temps on Wednesday night
http://www.medvale.demon.co.uk/weath...s/mn201103.jpg

Scotland -1 to 9°C; Northern Isles 5 to 8°C; Western Isles 6 to 9°C;
Northern England 6 to 10°C; Midlands and SE England 10 to 12°C; East
Anglia 11 to 12°C; SW England 9 to 11°C.

Kirkwall 5.9°C, Leuchars 5.7°C, Kinloss 3.8°C, Aviemore 3.4°C, Aberdeen
1.7°C.

Watnall and Coltishall 11.1°C, Wittering 11.2°C, Waddington 11.3°C,
Marham 11.4°C, St Mary's 11.9°C.


UK max. temps on Thursday
http://www.medvale.demon.co.uk/weath...s/mx201103.jpg

Scotland 8 to 12°C; Northern Isles 9 to 10°C; Western Isles 9 to 11°C;
Northern England 9 to 12°C; Midlands and East Anglia 12 to 13°C; Southern
England 11 to 13°C.

Aviemore 9.3°C, Copley 9.4°C, Kirkwall and Wick 9.5°C, Lerwick and
Stornoway 9.7°C.

St Athan and Solent MRSC 12.7°C, Plymouth 12.9°C, Heathrow and Guernsey
13.1°C, Yeovilton 13.4°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

Rain across northern England and eastern Ireland on Wednesday night with a
second narrow band of rain moving into western Scotland early on Thursday
morning. Rain in SW England by noon moves slowly NE towards the Wash by
evening. Showers continue in western Scotland.

Dishforth 10 mm, Leeming 11 mm, Topcliffe 12 mm, Carlisle 13 mm, Shap 14
mm, Spadeadam 15 mm, Ronaldsway 16 mm, Keswick and Valley 19 mm, Walney
Island and St Bees Head 20 mm, Capel Curig 29 mm.


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


Colin Youngs
Brussels