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

NOAA 17 VIS satellite pictures from Bernard Burton's site at 11.53 UTC on
Wednesday 28 April
http://www.btinternet.com/~wokingham...53-b-uk-n.html
http://www.btinternet.com/~wokingham...53-c-uk-s.html

NOAA 17 VIS satellite picture from Dundee at 11.51 UTC on Wednesday 28 April
http://makeashorterlink.com/?M14125828

Broken cloud over Scotland and Ireland. Most of England and Wales cloudy.
Bright in western Belgium and much of the Netherlands but cloud with showers
and thunderstorms over the rest of Belgium and moving NE.

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

Scotland 1 to 8°C; Northern Isles 4 to 8°C; Western Isles 5 to 8°C;
Northern England 7 to 9°C; Midlands 8 to 10°C; East Anglia and SE England
9 to 11°C; SW England and Wales 7 to 10°C; Northern Ireland 6 to 8°C.

Aviemore and Tain Range 5.6°C, Prestwick 5.2°C, Tulloch Bridge 4.9°C,
Stornoway 4.5°C, Kirkwall 3.7°C, Wick 3.4°C, Aboyne 3.0°C, Loch
Glascarnoch 2.0°C, Altnaharra 0.5°C.

Coltishall 9.7°C, Yeovilton and Wattisham 9.8°C, Marham 9.9°C, Heathrow
10.1°C, Herstmonceux 10.4°C, Solent MRSC 10.5°C.


UK max. temps on Wednesday
http://www.medvale.demon.co.uk/weath...s/mx280404.jpg

Scotland 11 to 16°C; Northern Isles 10 to 14°C; Western Isles 12 to 13°C;
Northern England 8 to 14°C; Midlands 10 to 12°C; East Anglia 10 to 16°C;
SE England 10 to 17°C; SW England 9 to 13°C; Wales 9 to 14°C; Northern
Ireland 10 to 13°C.

Copley 7.5°C, Leeming 9.2°C, Dunkeswell 9.6°C, Boulmer 9.8°C, Aberporth
10.1°C, Coltishall 10.4°C, Wittering 10.6°C, Marham 10.8°C.

Thorney Island and Shoeburyness 15.6°C, Strathallan 15.8°C, Bishopton
16.1°C, Charlwood 16.2°C, Redhill 16.3°C, Gravesend 16.8°C, Herstmonceux
and Manston 17.4°C, Langdon Bay 17.8°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

Showers and thunderstorms across SE England and East Anglia on Tuesday night
with some rain eventually in the Midlands and east Wales and NE England on
Wednesday morning. Band of lighter rain over SE and south Scotland and the
Borders. Rain confined to the area around the Wash by midday with some
showers further west. More widespread rain across the Midlands again and
into the SW during the late afternoon and evening.

Northolt 12 mm, Andrewsfield 13 mm, Heathrow 14 mm, High Wycombe, Odiham
and Farnborough 15 mm, Marham and Charlwood 16 mm, Holbeach, Cottesmore
and London MO 17 mm, Wittering 18 mm, Wainfleet 19 mm.

http://imkpc3.physik.uni-karlsruhe.de/pics/Rsfloc3.gif
http://www.wetterzentrale.de/topkarten/tkbeoblar.htm April 28 - Intensity
Click button on right

Thunder over East Anglia and SE England in the early hours of the morning
and near the SE coast on Wednesday afternoon and evening. Thundery
outbreaks over Belgium on Wednesday afternoon moved north over the
Netherlands in the late afternoon and evening.


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


Colin Youngs
Brussels