MSG-1 satellite picture from F. Valk's site at 12.00 UTC on Friday
http://www.fvalk.com/images/Day_imag...8-1200-eur.jpg

NOAA 16 VIS satellite picture from Bernard Burton's site at 13.05 UTC on
Friday
http://www.btinternet.com/~wokingham...-1305-b-uk.JPG

NOAA 16 VIS satellite picture from Dundee at 13.06 UTC on Friday
http://makeashorterlink.com/?B28612AA6

NOAA 16 VIS satellite picture from DLR at 12.55 UTC on Friday
http://www.dfd.dlr.de/ftp/put/wetter...1281255.uk.jpg

Large area of cloud covers Ireland and northern and western Britain but
cloud is more broken over Wales and the west Midlands and SW England.
Sunny in eastern England. Areas of fog and low cloud over Belgium and the
south of the Netherlands but clear towards the Belgian coast and in the
northern half of the Netherlands.


Tonight (Friday)
http://www.thisisbournemouth.co.uk/d...er/minmax.html is still
displaying Monday's extremes so once again the figures below are taken
mostly from the synops.

UK min. temps on Thursday night
http://www.medvale.demon.co.uk/weath...s/mn281103.jpg

Scotland -1 to 5°C; Northern Isles 3 to 6°C; Western Isles 3 to 5°C;
Northern England -1 to 4°C; Midlands and East Anglia -3 to 2°C; SE
England -4 to 3°C; SW England -1 to 7°C.

Wittering, Marham, Wattisham and Herstmonceux -1.3°C, Yeovilton -1.7°C,
Copley -2.3°C, Shawbury -2.5°C, Coltishall -2.8°C.

Camborne 5.8°C, Guernsey 5.9°C, Valley and Culdrose 6.0°C, St Mawgan
6.2°C, St Mary's 9.3°C.


UK max. temps on Friday
http://www.medvale.demon.co.uk/weath...s/mx281103.jpg

Scotland 4 to 11°C; Northern Isles 6 to 8°C; Western Isles 8 to 11°C;
Northern England 6 to 10°C; Midlands and East Anglia 8 to 10°C; Southern
England 9 to 12°C.

Copley 3.8°C, Aviemore 5.5°C, Aberdeen 6.1°C, Boulmer 6.3°C, Kirkwall
6.4°C, Leuchars 6.6°C, Leeming 6.7°C.

Guernsey 11.7°C, Ronaldsway and Camborne 11.9°C, Culdrose 12.0°C,
Plymouth 12.1°C, St Mawgan 12.2°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 western Scotland on Thursday night and some also in SW England
and Wales. Rain moves over the north of Ireland on Friday morning and
across much of Scotland in the afternoon.

Tulloch Bridge 7 mm, Drumalbin 8 mm, Lusa/Skye 9 mm, Machrihanish and
Dundrennan 11 mm, West Freugh, Prestwick and Bishopton 12 mm, Eskdalemuir
16 mm.


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


Colin Youngs
Brussels