Meteosat 8 satellite picture from F. Valk's site at 12.00 UTC on Friday 9
April
http://www.fvalk.com/images/Day_imag...9-1200-eur.jpg

NOAA 17 VIS satellite picture from Bernard Burton's site at 10.44 UTC on
Friday 9 April
http://www.btinternet.com/~wokingham...1044-c-uk.html

NOAA 17 VIS satellite picture from Dundee at 10.43 UTC on Friday 9 April
http://makeashorterlink.com/?U25B32BF7

NOAA 17 VIS satellite picture from DLR at 10.38 UTC on Friday 9 April
http://www.dfd.dlr.de/ftp/put/wetter...4091038.uk.jpg

Warm front across northern England with cloud on and behind it. Much of
England and Wales clear ahead of the front but patchy cloud over East Anglia
and SE England. Low Countries cloudy except for the north of the
Netherlands.


UK min. temps on Thursday night
http://www.uni-koeln.de/math-nat-fak...europazoom.gif

Scotland 4 to 8°C; Northern Isles 7 to 8°C; Western Isles 8 to 9°C;
Northern England -3 to 6°C; Midlands -3 to 2°C; East Anglia 0 to 2°C; SE
England -1 to 4°C; SW England -3 to 4°C; Wales -4 to 7°C; Northern
Ireland 7 to 9°C.

Trawsgoed and Scampton -2.2°C, Pershore -2.5°C, Dishforth -2.6°C,
Shawbury -2.7°C, Church Fenton, Linton-on-Ouse and Yeovilton -2.8°C,
Topcliffe -3.7°C, Sennybridge -4.0°C.

Wick, Aberdeen and Leuchars 7.6°C, Kirkwall, Stornoway, Tiree and
Machrihanish 8.0°C, Kinloss 8.4°C, South Uist 8.6°C.


UK max. temps on Friday
http://www.uni-koeln.de/math-nat-fak...europazoom.gif

Scotland 10 to 15°C; Northern Isles 7 to 9°C; Western Isles 10 to 11°C;
Northern England 9 to 13°C; Midlands 12 to 14°C; East Anglia 11 to 13°C;
SE England 11 to 14°C; SW England and Northern Ireland 10 to 13°C; Wales 8
to 13°C.

Lerwick 7.9°C, Aberporth and Guernsey 9.3°C, Valley 9.5°C, Kirkwall
9.6°C, Manchester 9.8°C.

Boulmer, Watnall, Coleshill, Wittering and Brize Norton 13.2°C, Waddington
13.5°C, Solent MRSC 13.7°C, Gogarbank 13.8°C, Bridlington 14.5°C,
Strathallan, Charterhall and Pershore 15°C, Great Malvern 16°C, Leuchars
16.8°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

Narrow band of rain on the warm front from SE Scotland to eastern Ireland
moves very slowly SE on Thursday night and largely breaks up except towards
the SW. Scattered outbreaks of light rain in northern England and north
Wales on Friday afternoon.

Glenanne (NI), Lossiemouth, Prestwick and Kinloss 3 mm, Belfast Aldergrove,
Portglenone (NI), Ballypatrick (NI) and St Bees Head 4 mm, West Freugh 5
mm.


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


Colin Youngs
Brussels