Meteosat 8 satellite picture from F. Valk's site at 12.00 UTC on Monday 12
April
http://www.fvalk.com/images/Day_imag...2-1200-eur.jpg

NOAA 16 VIS satellite picture from Bernard Burton's site at 14.10 UTC on
Monday 12 April
http://www.btinternet.com/~wokingham...1410-b-uk.html

NOAA 17 VIS satellite picture from DLR at 11.09 UTC on Monday 12 April
http://www.dfd.dlr.de/ftp/put/wetter...4121109.uk.jpg

The earlier pictures show rather large amounts of cloud over Scotland,
Ireland, Wales and northern England. Midlands and southern England fairly
sunny. Sunny in Belgium and the south and west of the Netherlands but
cloudy in the north and east of the Netherlands.

In the 14.10 picture cloud has developed fairly extensively over the
southern half of England as well.


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

Scotland 3 to 8°C; Northern Isles 6 to 7°C; Western Isles 3 to 7°C;
Northern England 3 to 8°C; Midlands 5 to 7°C; East Anglia 0 to 7°C; SE
England -1 to 6°C; WS England and Wales 5 to 9°C; Northern Ireland 1 to
6°C.

Herstmonceux 1.6°C, Shoreham 1.4°C, Coltishall 1.2°C, Castlederg (NI) and
Langdon Bay 1.1°C, Shap and Shoeburyness 0.2°C, Gravesend 0.1°C,
Charlwood -1.0°C, Redhill -2.7°C.

St Mary's 7.8°C, St Mawgan 7.9°C, Ronaldsway 8.1°C, Brize Norton 8.2°C,
St Athan 8.4°C, Valley 8.5°C, Plymouth 8.8°C.


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

Scotland 8 to 14°C; Northern Isles 9 to 13°C; Western Isles 10 to 12°C;
Northern England 10 to 14°C; Midlands 13 to 16°C; East Anglia and SW
England 12 to 16°C; SE England 11 to 16°C; Wales 9 to 14°C; Northern
Ireland 10 to 13°C.

Aberporth 9.5°C, Lerwick 10.4°C, South Uist 11.0°C, Eskdalemuir 11.1°C,
Bridlington 11.22°C, Stornoway 11.3°C.

Wittering 15.5°C, Coleshill and Boscombe Down 15.7°C, Marham 15.9°C,
Yeovilton 16.0°C, Heathrow 16.2°C, Brize Norton 16.3°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

Scattered showers in Scotland on Sunday night. More widespread showers in
north and NW Scotland on Monday morning extend gradually southwards with
some also in the north of Ireland. A few showers in the Midlands and
southern England in the late afternoon and evening.

Portglenone (NI), Lough Fea (NI), Stornoway and Altnaharra 2 mm, Lusa/Skye,
Tain Range and Inverbervie 3 mm, Aboyne 4 mm, Aberdeen 8 mm.


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


Colin Youngs
Brussels