Meteosat 8 satellite picture from F. Valk's site at 12.00 UTC on Wednesday 7
July
http://www.fvalk.com/images/Day_imag...7-1200-eur.jpg

NOAA 16 VIS satellite pictures from Bernard Burton's site at 14.35 UTC on
Wednesday 7 July
http://www.btinternet.com/~wokingham...35-b-uk-n.html
http://www.btinternet.com/~wokingham...35-c-uk-s.html

NOAA 17 VIS satellite picture from Dundee at 12.00 UTC on Wednesday 7 July
http://makeashorterlink.com/?I27612FB8

NOAA 17 VIS satellite picture from 11.55 DLR at UTC on Wednesday 7 July
http://www.dfd.dlr.de/ftp/put/wetter...7071155.uk.jpg

Extensive sunshine over Ireland. Variable cloud over northern Britain.
Southern Britain and Belgium under the cloud from the depression over NW
France.


UK min. temps on Tuesday night
http://www.medvale.demon.co.uk/weath...s/mn070704.jpg

Scotland 3 to 11°C; Northern Isles 6 to 9°C; Western Isles 5 to 10°C;
Northern England 7 to 13°C; Midlands 8 to 11°C; East Anglia and SW England
9 to 13°C; SE England 9 to 14°C; Wales 10 to 14°C; Northern Ireland 6 to
10°C.

Loch Glascarnoch and Machrihanish 5.5°C, Tulloch Bridge 5.4°C, Drumalbin
5.3°C, Port Ellen on Islay 4.7°C, Eskdalemuir 4.6°C, Redesdale 4.2°C,
Wick 3.8°C, Shap 3.3°C, Altnaharra 2.9°C.

Portland and Heathrow 13.2°C, Shoeburyness 13.4°C, Langdon Bay 13.5°C,
London MO 13.6°C, Solent MRSC 13.8°C, Shoreham 14.0°C, St Catherine's
Point and Manston 14.3°C, Guernsey 14.9°C.


UK max. temps on Wednesday
http://www.medvale.demon.co.uk/weath...s/mx070704.jpg

Scotland 13 to 20°C; Northern Isles 12 to 15°C; Western Isles 15 to 17°C;
Northern England 15 to 21°C; Midlands 18 to 21°C; East Anglia 16 to 20°C;
SE England 18 to 22°C; SW England 15 to 20°C; Wales 17 to 20°C; Northern
Ireland 16 to 19°C.

Fair Isle 12.6°C, Sella Ness 13.5°C, Aviemore 13.6°C, Baltasound 13.7°C,
Lerwick 13.9°C, Inverbervie 14.0°C, Aberdeen 14.2°C, Lossiemouth 14.5°C,
Stornoway and Leuchars 14.6°C.

St Catherine's Point and Farnborough 21.6°C, Pershore 21.7°C, Great
Malvern and Northolt 21.8°C, Shoreham 21.9°C, Brize Norton 22.0°C,
Heathrow 22.1°C, Benson 22.4°C, Solent MRSC 22.6°C, Thorney Island
22.8°C.

Thanks to Keith in Southend for some of the above temperature figures.


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 in north Wales and northern England on Tuesday
night. Rain moves north from France into the Channel on Wednesday morning
and spreads into southern England in the afternoon. Heavy rain in parts of
SE England.

Wattisham 10 mm, Thorney Island and Manston 11 mm, Kenley 12 mm,
Manchester, Andrewsfield and Camborne 13 mm, Culdrose and Shoeburyness 15
mm, St Catherine's Point 16 mm, Guernsey 21 mm.

Strongest gusts - Langdon Bay, Shoeburyness and Alderney 46 kn, Jersey 48
kn, Mumbles, Camborne and Plymouth 50 kn, Culdrose 59 kn.


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


Colin Youngs
Brussels