Meteosat 8 satellite picture from F. Valk's site at 12.00 UTC on Friday 16
July
http://www.fvalk.com/images/Day_imag...6-1200-eur.jpg

NOAA 16 VIS satellite picture from Bernard Burton's site at 14.33 UTC on
Friday 16 July
http://www.btinternet.com/~wokingham...1433-b-uk.html

NOAA 17 VIS satellite picture from Dundee at 11.56 UTC on Friday 16 July
http://makeashorterlink.com/?B22F122D8

NOAA 17 VIS satellite picture from DLR at 11.50 UTC on Friday 16 July
http://www.dfd.dlr.de/ftp/put/wetter...7161150.uk.jpg

Broken cloud over Ireland and northern Britain. Bands of frontal cloud
across the Midlands and south. Netherlands still rather cloudy but
brightening over Belgium from the south.


UK min. temps on Thursday night
http://www.medvale.demon.co.uk/weath...s/mn160704.jpg

Scotland 5 to 13°C; Northern Isles 8 to 10°C; Western Isles 10 to 12°C;
Northern England 10 to 14°C; Midlands and East Anglia 12 to 17°C; SE
England 15 to 17°C; SW England 15 to 16°C; Wales 13 to 16°C; Northern
Ireland 8 to 10°C.

Aberdeen 8.2°C, Lossiemouth 8.1°C, Lough Fea (NI) and Baltasound 7.9°C,
Tain Range 7.7°C, Castlederg (NI) 7.5°C, Sella Ness 7.2°C, Loch
Glascarnoch 7.1°C, Aviemore 6.7°C, Aboyne 5.3°C.

St Athan, St Mary's and Solent MRSC 15.6°C, Lyneham 15.8°C, Yeovilton
15.9°C, Brize Norton 16.3°C, Heathrow 17.0°C.


UK max. temps on Friday
http://www.medvale.demon.co.uk/weath...s/mx160704.jpg

Scotland 16 to 20°C; Northern Isles 13 to 18°C; Western Isles and Wales 15
to 19°C; Northern England 17 to 21°C; Midlands 19 to 23°C; East Anglia 21
to 23°C; SE England 16 to 24°C; SW England 16 to 21°C; Northern Ireland
16 to 19°C.

Lerwick 13.9°C, Langdon Bay 15.7°C, Stornoway 15.8°C, South Uist 16.0°C,
Plymouth 16.3°C, Ronaldsway 16.5°C, Valley 16.6°C.

Farnborough and Manston 22.3°C, Andrewsfield 22.5°C, Holbeach 22.9°C,
Pershore 23.1°C, Shoeburyness 23.3°C, Northolt 23.9°C, London MO and
Heathrow 24.0°C, Gravesend 24.8°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

Outbreaks of rain in Scotland on Thursday night and outbreaks of rain moved
north over southern England, Wales and the Midlands on Friday morning.
Some showers lingered over England in the afternoon. Rain moved into Wales
during the evening.

Aultbea, Sennybridge, Cardiff WC, Coleshill and Brize Norton 6 mm, St
Athan, Chivenor, Cottesmore and Wittering 7 mm, Marham and Coltishall 8 mm,
Liscombe 9 mm, Lusa/Skye 15 mm.


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


Colin Youngs
Brussels