Meteosat 8 satellite picture from F. Valk's site at 12.00 UTC on Wednesday
25 August
http://www.fvalk.com/images/Day_imag...5-1200-eur.jpg

NOAA 17 VIS satellite picture from Dundee at 11.46 UTC on Wednesday 25
August
http://makeashorterlink.com/?N2A212329

NOAA 17 VIS satellite picture from DLR at 11.40 UTC on Wednesday 25 August
http://www.dfd.dlr.de/ftp/put/wetter...8251140.uk.jpg

Sunny in NW Scotland. Variable cloud elsewhere with fairly widespread
showers from NW England across the north Midlands and in eastern and
southern England. Showers also over the Low Countries but sunny near the
Belgian coast.


UK min. temps on Tuesday night
http://www.medvale.demon.co.uk/weath...s/mn250804.jpg

Scotland 8 to 14°C; Northern Isles 11 to 13°C; Western Isles 13 to 14°C;
Northern England and East Anglia 12 to 15°C; Midlands 11 to 12°C; Southern
England 11 to 15°C; Wales and Northern Ireland 11 to 14°C.

Lake Vyrnwy 10.5°C, Ballykelly (NI), Shap and Spadeadam 10.1°C,
Eskdalemuir 9.9°C, Hereford 9.4°C, Sennybridge 9.2°C, Shobdon 9.0°C,
Altnaharra 7.5°C.

Prestwick 13.9°C, Valley 14.0°C, Guernsey 14.1°C, Solent MRSC 14.2°C,
Ronaldsway 14.4°C, St Mary's 14.6°C.


UK max. temps on Wednesday
http://www.medvale.demon.co.uk/weath...s/mx250804.jpg

Scotland 14 to 20°C; Northern Isles 15 to 16°C; Western Isles 15 to 19°C;
Northern England 16 to 21°C; Midlands 18 to 22°C; East Anglia and SE
England 19 to 21°C; SW England 17 to 20°C; Wales 16 to 19°C; Northern
Ireland 16 to 18°C.

Aberdeen 14.3°C, Lerwick 15.0°C, Stornoway 15.1°C, Kirkwall 15.2°C,
Boulmer 15.7°C, Aviemore and Aberporth 16.2°C, Kinloss 16.3°C.

Bishopton, Bournemouth, Charlwood, Heathrow and Thorney Island 21.1°C,
Church Fenton 21.2°C, Pershore 21.3°C, Gravesend 21.4°C, Farnborough
21.7°C, Great Malvern 22.0°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

Persistent showers on Tuesday night in NW England; some also in the SW and
near the SE coast and in the west of Scotland and Orkney. Small area of
rain continues in NW England and the NW Midlands on Wednesday morning with
showers developing elsewhere in England by early afternoon. Small rain
area in NE Scotland. Widespread showers with thunder in places in east and
SE England and the Midlands by late afternoon.

Cranwell, Wattisham, Brize Norton, Heathrow and Herstmonceux 10 mm,
Liscombe and Little Rissington 11 mm, Plymouth 12 mm, Marham and Chivenor
13 mm, Aberdeen 15 mm, London MO 17 mm, Manchester and Walney Island 19
mm, Leek 23 mm.

http://imkpc3.physik.uni-karlsruhe.de/pics/Rsfloc3.gif or
http://www.wetterzentrale.de/topkarten/tkbeoblar.htm August 25 Intensity

Thunder in eastern England and East Anglia on Wednesday afternoon with a few
reports also in NW and SE England and the west Midlands.


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


Colin Youngs
Brussels