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

NOAA 17 VIS satellite pictures from Bernard Burton's site at 11.11 UTC on
Wednesday 21 April
http://www.btinternet.com/~wokingham...11-b-uk-n.html
http://www.btinternet.com/~wokingham...11-c-uk-s.html

NOAA 17 VIS satellite picture from Dundee at 11.10 UTC on Wednesday 21 April
http://makeashorterlink.com/?B25832718

NOAA 17 VIS satellite picture from 11.05 DLR at UTC on Wednesday 21 April
http://www.dfd.dlr.de/ftp/put/wetter...4211105.uk.jpg

Broad band of frontal cloud covers most of Britain. Large amounts of cloud
over Belgium and much of the Netherlands with some breaks.


UK min. temps on Tuesday night
http://www.medvale.demon.co.uk/weath...s/mn210404.jpg

Scotland 5 to 9°C; Northern Isles 6 to 7°C; Western Isles and Midlands 8
to 9°C; Wales and Northern and SE England 7 to 10°C; East Anglia 8 to
10°C; SW England 7 to 11°C; Northern Ireland 7 to 9°C.

Kirkwall and Liscombe 6.8°C, Lough Fea (NI) and Baltasound 6.7°C, Aboyne
and Leek 6.6°C, Lake Vyrnwy 6.5°C, Lerwick and Copley 6.4°C, Loch
Glascarnoch 5.8°C, Prestwick 5.6°C, Aviemore 5.4°C.

Guernsey 10.1°C, Culdrose 10.2°C, Plymouth 10.3°C, Camborne 10.4°C, St
Mawgan 10.6°C, St Mary's 10.9°C.


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

Scotland 9 to 17°C; Northern Isles 8 to 11°C; Western Isles and SW England
11 to 14°C; Northern England 12 to 16°C; Midlands 14 to 17°C; East Anglia
15 to 17°C; SE England 12 to 17°C; Wales 10 to 15°C; Northern Ireland 12
to 14°C.

Lerwick 8.1°C, Copley 10.8°C, Aberdeen 10.9°C, Kirkwall 11.1°C, Tiree
and Eskdalemuir 11.3°C, Aberporth 11.4°C, Dunkeswell 11.5°C.

Waddington, Marham and Coltishall 16.7°C, Coningsby and Wattisham 16.8°C,
Scampton and Shoeburyness 16.9°C, Leconfield 17.0°C, Weybourne 17.4°C,
Gravesend 17.7°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

Widespread rain in Scotland on Tuesday night moves away to the north before
morning. Scattered outbreaks of rain also in northern England. Further
rain reaches western Ireland later in the night. Some rain moves into SW
England early on Wednesday morning, into Wales later in the morning and
across much of England during the afternoon and evening. Some thunder in
SE England during the evening. Other rain areas affect parts of NE and
northern England and western Scotland during the day.

Machrihanish, Dunkeswell, Cottesmore, Benson and Lyneham 10 mm,
Ballypatrick (NI), Lough Fea (NI), Tulloch Bridge and Shap 11 mm, South
Uist 12 mm, High Wycombe and Larkhill 13 mm, Boscombe Down and Bournemouth
16 mm, Great Malvern and Middle Wallop 18 mm.


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


Colin Youngs
Brussels