NOAA 16 VIS satellite picture from Bernard Burton's site at 14.13 UTC on
Thursday
http://www.btinternet.com/~wokingham...-1413-c-uk.JPG

NOAA 16 VIS satellite picture from Dundee at 14.15 UTC on Thursday
http://makeashorterlink.com/?H37123685

NOAA 16 VIS satellite picture from DLR at 14.06 UTC on Thursday
http://www.dfd.dlr.de/ftp/put/wetter...8071406.uk.jpg

Sea fog and low cloud round north and west Scotland and the north of
reland - also in and around the Irish Sea, Cardigan Bay and the Bristol
Channel and near parts of the east coast. Parts of northern England are
cloudy but there is extensive sunshine elsewhere with rather a lot of high
cloud. Thundery outbreaks in the extreme south of the Netherlands and near
the Belgian-German border but the Low Countries have become mostly sunny
again after the passage of a thundery disturbance across western Belgium and
the south of the Netherlands in the morning.


UK min. temps on Wednesday night
http://www.medvale.demon.co.uk/weath...s/mn070803.jpg

Scotland 12 to 18°C; Scottish islands 13 to 14°C; Northern England 14 to
18°C; Midlands 13 to 17°C; East Anglia and SE England 15 to 20°C; SW
England 15 to 18°C.

Tulloch Bridge and Pershore 12.6°C, Altnaharra 12.5°C, Aviemore 12.2°C,
Glenlivet 12.0°C, Eskdalemuir 11.6°C, Aboyne 10.4°C, Shap 10.3°C.

Aberporth 16.5°C, St Athan, Wattisham and Solent MRSC 16.9°C, Yeovilton
17.4°C, Coltishall 17.5°C, Heathrow 18.0°C.

Many coastal places in Scotland reported fog in the early morning - as did
some sites in the SW.


UK max. temps on Thursday
http://www.medvale.demon.co.uk/weath...s/mx070803.jpg

Scotland 17 to 30°C; Northern Isles 15 to 18°C; Western Isles 17 to 21°C;
Northern England 20 to 27°C; Midlands and East Anglia 23 to 30°C; SE
England 25 to 30°C; SW England 21 to 30°C.

Stornoway 16..7°C, Kirkwall 18.1°C, Tiree 18.3°C, Lerwick and Wick
18.8°C, South Uist 19.4°C.

Pershore, London WC and Heathrow 29.7°C, Andrewsfield and Gravesend 29.9°C,
Bournemouth 30.0°C, Shobdon 30.4°C, Great Malvern 30.5°C, Thorney Island
30.7°C, Shoeburyness 30.9°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

Very little shows up on the radar except for isolated showers in NW Scotland
later on Thursday.

Milford Haven and Cardinham 0.4 mm, Bournemouth 0.5 mm, Wick 0.6 mm,
Loftus 0.7 mm, Camborne 0.9 mm.


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


Colin Youngs
Brussels