Meteosat 8 satellite picture from F. Valk's site at 12.00 UTC on Wednesday
14 April
http://www.fvalk.com/images/Day_imag...4-1200-eur.jpg

NOAA 16 VIS satellite pictures from Bernard Burton's site at 13.47 UTC on
Wednesday 14 April
http://www.btinternet.com/~wokingham...47-b-uk-n.html
http://www.btinternet.com/~wokingham...47-c-uk-s.html

NOAA 16 VIS satellite picture from DLR at 13.38 UTC on Wednesday 14 April
http://www.dfd.dlr.de/ftp/put/wetter...4141338.uk.jpg

Bands of frontal cloud over Scotland, Ireland, much of northern England and
north Wales. Lines of fair-weather cumulus over the rest of England and
Wales. Clear and sunny towards the south coast. Low Countries quite
sunny with just some cumulus - especially in western Belgium.


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

Scotland 7 to 11°C; Northern Isles 6 to 7°C; Western Isles and Northern
England 7 to 9°C; Midlands 4 to 8°C; East Anglia 2 to 6°C; SE England -1
to 6°C; SW England 1 to 8°C; Wales 6 to 9°C; Northern Ireland 9 to 11°C.

Boscombe Down and Northolt 1.5°C, Benson 1.0°C, Middle Wallop 0.9°C,
Yeovilton 0.8°C, Shoreham 0.3°C, Charlwood 0.2°C, Larkhill -0.5°C,
Bournemouth -0.7°C, Redhill -1.0°C.

Tiree 8.8°C, Aviemore 8.9°C, Boulmer 9.0°C, Bishopton 9.1°C, Prestwick
9.7°C, Machrihanish and Gogarbank 9.9°C, Leuchars 10.7°C.


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

Scotland 10 to 15°C; Northern Isles 9 to 12°C; Western Isles 11 to 13°C;
Northern and SW England 11 to 16°C; Midlands 15 to 17°C; East Anglia 14 to
17°C; SE England 12 to 17°C; Wales 10 to 16°C; Northern Ireland 11 to
14°C.

Lerwick 9.6°C, Eskdalemuir 9.7°C, Stornoway 11.0°C, Kirkwall and Tiree
11.5°C, Aberporth 11.6°C, Ronaldsway and Valley 11.7°C.

Marham 16.5°C, Heathrow and Northolt 16.6°C, Cranwell and Scampton 16.7°C,
Holbeach 16.8°C, Coningsby, Donna Nook and Wainfleet 17.0°C, London Met O.
17.2°C, Gravesend 18.1°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 outbreaks of rain in western Scotland, northern England and north
Wales on Tuesday night die out by Wednesday morning. More general rain in
NW Scotland overnight and some showers elsewhere in Scotland in the morning.
Rain reaches western Ireland by mid-afternoon and covers much of Ireland and
NW Scotland by mid-evening.

Tiree, Eskdalemuir and Dundrennan 5 mm, Tulloch Bridge and Spadeadam 6 mm,
Barra and St Bees Head 7 mm, Stornoway 8 mm, South Uist 9 mm, Loch
Glascarnoch 11 mm, Aultbea 12 mm, Lusa/Skye 14 mm.


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


Colin Youngs
Brussels