Meteosat 8 satellite picture from F. Valk's site at 12.00 UTC on Friday 1
October
http://www.fvalk.com/images/Day_imag...1-1200-eur.jpg

NOAA 16 VIS satellite picture from Bernard Burton's site at 13.17 UTC on
Friday 1 October
http://www.btinternet.com/~wokingham...1317-b-uk.html

NOAA 17 VIS satellite picture from Dundee at 11.04 UTC on Friday 1 October
http://makeashorterlink.com/?G5F412D69

NOAA 17 VIS satellite picture from DLR at 10.58 UTC on Friday 1 October
http://www.dfd.dlr.de/ftp/put/wetter...0011058.uk.jpg

Frontal cloud crossing Britain. Some brightness ahead of it in eastern
England - especially in the NOAA 17 photo - and broken cloud behind it over
most of Ireland. Broken cloud over Belgium but the Netherlands is mostly
cloudy except for the SW.

Highest / lowest temperature figures below taken from SYNOPs only.

UK min. temps on Thursday night
http://www.medvale.demon.co.uk/weath...s/mn011004.jpg

Scotland 2 to 10°C; Scottish islands 7 to 11°C; Northern England 3 to
10°C; Midlands 4 to 9°C; East Anglia 7 to 9°C; SE England and Northern
Ireland 5 to 10°C; SW England and Wales 6 to 12°C.

Shawbury 4.2°C, Eskdalemuir 4.1°C, Copley 3.9°C, Aviemore 3.4°C, Leeming
3.3°C.

Aberdeen and Heathrow 10.0°C, South Uist, Solent MRSC and Langdon Bay
10.4°C, Lerwick 10.7°C, St Mary's and Guernsey 11.8°C.


UK max. temps on Friday
http://www.medvale.demon.co.uk/weath...s/mx011004.jpg

Scottish mainland and the Northern Isles 11 to 14°C; Western Isles 13 to
14°C; Northern and SW England and Northern Ireland 13 to 16°C; Midlands
14 to 16°C; East Anglia and SE England 15 to 17°C; Wales 12 to 15°C.

Lerwick and Eskdalemuir 11.4°C, Aviemore 12.1°C, Bishopton 13.0°C,
Stornoway 13.4°C, Wick 13.5°C, South Uist 13.6°C.

Boscombe Down, Heathrow and Herstmonceux 16.7°C, Yeovilton 16.9°C,
Wattisham 17.0°C, Langdon Bay 17.2°C, Coltishall 17.7°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

Rain reaches western Ireland early on Friday morning and moves slowly east,
reaching western Britain by mid-afternoon and eastern England by
mid-evening. Showers follow over Ireland.

Fair Isle, Kirkwall, Sennybridge and Camborne 6 mm, St Athan and Culdrose 7
mm, Lerwick 8 mm, Milford Haven 9 mm, West Freugh 12 mm.


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


Colin Youngs
Brussels