NOAA 16 VIS satellite picture from Bernard Burton's site at 14.26 UTC on
Thursday 12 August
http://www.btinternet.com/~wokingham...1426-b-uk.html

NOAA 17 VIS satellite picture from Dundee at 11.42 UTC on Thursday 12 August
http://makeashorterlink.com/?W4F621909

NOAA 17 VIS satellite picture from DLR at 11.36 UTC on Thursday 12 August
http://www.dfd.dlr.de/ftp/put/wetter...8121136.uk.jpg

Frontal cloud over Scotland and northern England extends across the North
Sea and covers Belgium and the SW half of the Netherlands. Heavy showers
and thunderstorms across Wales and central England and more moving into
southern England from France.


UK min. temps on Wednesday night
http://www.medvale.demon.co.uk/weath...s/mn120804.jpg

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

Pembrey Sands 13.7°C, Copley and Dunkeswell 13.6°C, Lake Vyrnwy 13.5°C,
Kirkwall, Redesdale and Aberporth 13.4°C, Spadeadam 13.3°C, Cardinham
13.1°C, Wick 12.8°C, Shap 11.4°C.

Waddington and Coltishall 16.6°C, Wittering 16.7°C, Marham, Herstmonceux
and Langdon Bay 16.9°C, Wattisham 17.2°C, Solent MRSC 17.3°C, Heathrow
17.6°C.


UK max. temps on Thursday
http://www.medvale.demon.co.uk/weath...s/mx120804.jpg

Scotland 16 to 22°C; Northern Isles 15 to 17°C; Western Isles 16 to 22°C;
Northern England 17 to 24°C; Midlands, East Anglia and SE England 20 to
24°C; SW England 19 to 22°C; Wales 18 to 22°C; Northern Ireland 16 to
21°C.

Wick 15.6°C, Kirkwall 15.7°C, Stornoway 16.2°C, Leuchars and Boulmer
16.5°C, Lerwick 16.7°C, Copley 17.0°C, Bridlington 17.2°C, Eskdalemuir
17.6°C.

Pershore 23.6°C, Watnall, Great Malvern and Bedford 23.8°C, Hawarden
24.0°C, Benson and Heathrow 24.2°C, Northolt and London MO 24.5°C, Crosby
24.7°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

On Wednesday night rain is still falling in the northern half of Scotland.
An area of rain over southern England and the Midlands moves north to reach
northern England by Thursday morning. Heavy rain in Wales in the early
hours. Rain area moves into Scotland by mid-morning but is rather less
intense than earlier and breaks up over central Scotland by evening. Heavy
showers and thunderstorms move into SW England mid-morning and develop
widely in England and Wales by early afternoon. Thunderstorms especially
in the west Midlands in the early afternoon and central northern England in
the early evening.

Brize Norton 20 mm, Church Lawford and Wainfleet 21 mm, Chivenor 24 mm,
Cardiff WC 27 mm, Liscombe and Dunkeswell 28 mm, Aberporth 30 mm,
Sennybridge 31 mm, Walney Island and Mumbles 32 mm, Redesdale 33 mm, St
Athan 34 mm, Plymouth 45 mm, Pembrey Sands 51 mm, Haytor 60 mm.

Sferics - http://imkpc3.physik.uni-karlsruhe.de/pics/Rsfloc3.gif or
http://www.wetterzentrale.de/topkarten/tkbeoblar.htm August 12 Intensity

Thunder quite widespread in the SW in the late morning, across the Midlands
and north Wales in the afternoon and in northern and eastern England in the
early evening.


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


Colin Youngs
Brussels