NOAA 16 VIS satellite picture from Bernard Burton's site at 14.05 UTC on
Thursday 5 August
http://www.btinternet.com/~wokingham...1405-b-uk.html

NOAA 17 VIS satellite picture from Dundee at 11.01 UTC on Thursday 5 August
http://makeashorterlink.com/?H2D121BF8

NOAA 17 VIS satellite picture from DLR at 10.55 UTC on Thursday 5 August
http://www.dfd.dlr.de/ftp/put/wetter...8051055.uk.jpg

Broken cloud over Scotland and northern England. Thunderstorms developing
in southern England in the later picture. Western Belgium and much of the
Dutch west coast are cloudy but elsewhere in the Low Countries it is sunny
again.


UK min. temps on Wednesday night
http://www.medvale.demon.co.uk/weath...s/mn050804.jpg

Scotland 11 to 16°C; Northern Isles 11 to 13°C; Western Isles 11 to 15°C;
Northern England and East Anglia 14 to 17°C; Midlands and Wales 13 to
16°C; SE England 14 to 18°C; SW England 10 to 15°C; Northern Ireland 10
to 14°C.

Cardinham 11.6°C, Wick 11.5°C, Kirkwall 11.2°C, Culdrose 11.1°C,
Lusa/Skye 10.8°C, Fair Isle and Aultbea 10.3°C, Dunkeswell and Liscombe
10.2°C, Castlederg (NI) 9.6°C.

Ronaldsway 15.9°C, Manchester and Waddington 15.8°C, Coltishall 16.0°C,
Brize Norton 16.4°C, Langdon Bay 16.5°C, Herstmonceux 17°C, Solent MRSC
17.1°C, Heathrow 18.8°C.


UK max. temps on Thursday
http://www.medvale.demon.co.uk/weath...s/mx050804.jpg

Scotland 15 to 25°C; Northern Isles 17 to 20°C; Western Isles 15 to 23°C;
Northern England 18 to 25°C; Midlands 24 to 27°C; East Anglia and SW
England 20 to 27°C; SE England 24 to 29°C; Wales 20 to 24°C; Northern
Ireland 18 to 23°C.

Leuchars 16.2°C, Wick 17.1°C, Kirkwall 17.7°C, Lerwick 18°C, Ronaldsway
18.1°C, Bridlington 18.7°C, Boulmer 18.8°C, Kinloss 19.0°C.

Church Lawford and Redhill 27.4°C, Middle Wallop 27.5°C, Yeovilton 27.6°C,
Odiham and Herstmonceux 28.2°C, London MO 28.3°C, Bedford 28.6°C,
Northolt 28.9°C, Charlwood 29.0°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

A few showers in central Scotland early on Wednesday night and a few in NW
England towards midday on Thursday. Two areas of thunderstorms develop in
southern England by mid-afternoon - one moving north into the west Midlands
and eventually northern England and the south of Scotland. Area of rain in
the extreme SE of England and East Anglia.

http://imkpc3.physik.uni-karlsruhe.de/pics/Rsfloc3.gif or
http://www.wetterzentrale.de/topkarten/tkbeoblar.htm August 5 Intensity

Thunderstorms move from southern England into the Midlands and NW England
and SW Scotland during Thursday afternoon and evening.

Rhyl, Lake Vyrnwy and Portland 4 mm, Church Lawford 5 mm, Charlwood 7 mm,
High Wycombe 8 mm, Shawbury 9 mm, Heathrow 16 mm, Pershore 22 mm, Great
Malvern 25 mm.


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


Colin Youngs
Brussels

I work in Charlwood and my rain bucket got 7mm as well ;-}
Simon Spiers
Crawley Down weather station
Work Charlwood Surrey

At my talks whilst Redhill still is enquired about from the public due to
its often mentioned cold temperatures another name is now beginning to take
prominence. A place that was promoted I believe by the Met Office[ I am
right Martin} as being less extreme than the nearby Redhill aerodrome and
perhaps more representative of the area- the place Charlwood. But was has
happened is that Charlwood is proving a hot spot and is in the news almost
as much as Redhill. It shows what I have been saying for over 26 years in
the local Redhill papers is that east Surrey with its hills, valleys,
variable geology and southerly aspects is an interesting area for Weather
extremes and I have not even mentioned the Chipstead Valley..
Ian Currie-Coulsdon
www.Frostedearth.com



"SSpiers" wrote in message
...
I work in Charlwood and my rain bucket got 7mm as well ;-}
Simon Spiers
Crawley Down weather station
Work Charlwood Surrey

"Ian Currie" wrote in message
k...
.. It shows what I have been saying for over 26 years in
the local Redhill papers is that east Surrey with its hills, valleys,
variable geology and southerly aspects is an interesting area for
Weather
extremes and I have not even mentioned the Chipstead Valley..

Hi, Ian,

Another very important factor is the high density of observing stations
(to match the high population density) which makes it far more likely to
pick up peculiarities.

The nearest MO sites to Copley are Durham, Burnhope, Widdybank Fell and
Teesside airport - all greater than 15 miles away.

Copley is the only MO site in the whole of Teesdale!

ATB,

--
Ken Cook, Copley (5miles north of Barnard Castle), County Durham.
830ft
http://mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk/copley
(MO climat. site updated before 10Z and 19Z daily)
kencookATcopleydurham.freeserve.co.uk
(All times GMT)





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In uk.sci.weather on Thu, 5 Aug 2004 at 23:00:47, Colin Youngs wrote :

Thunderstorms move from southern England into the Midlands and NW England
and SW Scotland during Thursday afternoon and evening.

Rhyl, Lake Vyrnwy and Portland 4 mm, Church Lawford 5 mm, Charlwood 7 mm,
High Wycombe 8 mm, Shawbury 9 mm, Heathrow 16 mm, Pershore 22 mm, Great
Malvern 25 mm.

Hey, I win : 33.7mm here!
--
Paul Hyett, Cheltenham