NOAA 16 VIS satellite picture from Bernard Burton's site at 13.54 UTC on
Friday 6 August
http://www.btinternet.com/~wokingham...1354-b-uk.html

NOAA 17 VIS satellite picture from Dundee at 10.38 UTC on Friday 6 August
http://makeashorterlink.com/?E39E12DF8

Band of cloud from the west of Scotland to the north of Ireland but
otherwise cloud is well broken over the British Isles. More or less clear
from the east Midlands to SE England. Areas of cloud over Belgium and the
extreme SW of the Netherlands but the rest of the Netherlands is sunny.


UK min. temps on Thursday night
http://www.medvale.demon.co.uk/weath...s/mn060804.jpg

Scotland 12 to 17°C; Northern Isles 12 to 13°C; Western Isles and East
Anglia 15 to 17°C; Northern England 13 to 17°C; Midlands 12 to 17°C; SE
England 11 to 17°C; SW England and Wales 10 to 16°C; Northern Ireland 13
to 15°C.

Liscombe 11.7°C, Tain Range 11.6°C, Middle Wallop 11.5°C, Yeovilton
11.0°C, Hereford 10.9°C, Larkhill 10.8°C, Bournemouth 10.6°C, Dunkeswell
10.4°C, Shobdon 10.2°C, Sennybridge 9.8°C.

Solent MRSC 16.0°C, Manchester and Watnall 16.2°C, Prestwick 16.3°C,
Leeming 16.4°C, Langdon Bay 17.1°C, Coltishall 17.2°C.


UK max. temps on Friday
http://www.medvale.demon.co.uk/weath...s/mx060804.jpg

Scotland 18 to 24°C; Northern Isles 14 to 19°C; Western Isles 17 to 20°C;
Northern England 18 to 26°C; Midlands 24 to 28°C; East Anglia 22 to 28°C;
SE England 20 to 29°C; SW England 19 to 24°C; Wales 18 to 22°C; Northern
Ireland 17 to 19°C.

Lerwick 15°C, South Uist 17.5°C, Tiree and Bridlington 17.9°C, Stornoway
18.2°C, Kirkwall 18.6°C, Aberporth 18.8°C, Belfast Aldergrove 18.9°C.

Marham 27.5°C, Heathrow and Redhill 27.6°C, Andrewsfield 27.7°C, Bedford
28.0°C, Coningsby 28.1°C, Charlwood 28.2°C, Northolt 28.3°C, Gravesend
28.8°C, London MO 29.2°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

Rain moves away from SE England soon after midnight on Thursday night.
Outbreaks of rain and thunderstorms in central and eastern Scotland until
early on Friday morning and in NE England late in the night.

Coleshill 10 mm, Keswick and Manchester 11 mm, Walney Island and Boulmer
12 mm, Eskdalemuir and Spadeadam 13 mm, Leuchars 15 mm, Dundrennan and
Drumalbin 17 mm, Shap 19 mm, St Bees 24 mm.

http://imkpc3.physik.uni-karlsruhe.de/pics/Rsfloc3.gif or
http://www.wetterzentrale.de/topkarten/tkbeoblar.htm August 6 Intensity

Thunder in central Scotland and central northern England early on Thursday
night and NE England later in the night - also in western Belgium in the
early hours.


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


Colin Youngs
Brussels