Meteosat 7 satellite picture from F. Valk's site at 11.00 UTC on Tuesday 5
October
http://www.fvalk.com/images/Day_imag...0-eur-met7.jpg

NOAA 16 VIS satellite picture from Bernard Burton's site at 14.21 UTC on
Tuesday 5 October
http://www.btinternet.com/~wokingham...1421-b-uk.html

NOAA 17 VIS satellite picture from Dundee at 11.12 UTC on Tuesday 5 October
http://makeashorterlink.com/?G5E021579

NOAA 17 VIS satellite picture from DLR at 11.07 UTC on Tuesday 5 October
http://www.dfd.dlr.de/ftp/put/wetter...0051107.uk.jpg

Bands of convective cloud round the low to the NW of Scotland with lines of
showers - especially over Scotland. Low Countries cloudy although the
cloud is thin in the western half of the Netherlands.


UK min. temps on Monday night
http://www.medvale.demon.co.uk/weath...s/mn051004.jpg

Scotland 7 to 11°C; Northern Isles 8 to 9°C; Western Isles 7 to 10°C;
Northern England 7 to 12°C; Midlands 5 to 9°C; East Anglia 4 to 9°C; SE
England 4 to 10°C; SW England 5 to 11°C; Wales 8 to 12°C; Northern
Ireland 8 to 10°C.

Andrewsfield and Shoreham 5.4°C, Topcliffe and Boscombe Down 5.3°C, Benson
4.6°C, Bournemouth and Charlwood 4.1°C, Coltishall 4.0°C, Northolt 3.9°C,
Redhill 1.6°C.

Machrihanish and Guernsey 10.3°C, Plymouth 11.0°C, St Athan and Culdrose
11.5°C, Valley 12.0°C, Ronaldsway 12.3°C, St Mary's 12..6°C.


UK max. temps on Tuesday
http://www.medvale.demon.co.uk/weath...s/mx051004.jpg

Scotland 10 to 14°C; Northern Isles 12 to 13°C; Western Isles and Northern
Ireland 10 to 13°C; Northern England and Wales 11 to 16°C; Midlands and SE
England 15 to 17°C; East Anglia 16 to 17°C; SW England 13 to 16°C.

Eskdalemuir 10.1°C, Stornoway 10.7°C, Aviemore 11.0°C, South Uist 11.8°C,
Lerwick 11.9°C, Wick 12.5°C, Kirkwall 12.6°C, Tiree 12.7°C.

Charlwood 17.0°C, Bournemouth 17.1°C, Coltishall and Jersey 17.2°C,
Benson 17.6°C, Shoeburyness 17.7°C, London MO and Heathrow 17.8°C,
Northolt 18.0°C, Gravesend 18.1°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

Widespread showers on Monday night and Tuesday in the west of Scotland, NW
England, west Wales and NW Ireland. More general rain from western
Scotland to NW Ireland on Tuesday morning. Lines of showers also develop
in central and eastern England during the afternoon and showers again
cluster into a general area of rain in western Scotland towards evening.

Strathallan 10 mm, Aultbea 15 mm, Eskdalemuir 16 mm, Bishopton 18 mm,
Spadeadam 23 mm, Tiree and Shap 24 mm, Loch Glascarnoch and Tulloch Bridge
33 mm, Lusa/Skye and Capel Curig 47 mm.


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


Colin Youngs
Brussels