Meteosat 8 satellite picture from F. Valk's site at 12.00 UTC on Thursday 21
October
http://www.fvalk.com/images/Day_imag...1-1200-eur.jpg

NOAA 16 VIS satellite pictures from Bernard Burton's site at 12.49 UTC on
Thursday 21 October
http://www.btinternet.com/~wokingham...49-b-uk-n.html
http://www.btinternet.com/~wokingham...49-c-uk-s.html

NOAA 17 VIS satellite picture from DLR at 11.42 UTC on Thursday 21 October
http://www.dfd.dlr.de/ftp/put/wetter...0211142.uk.jpg

Frontal cloud over northern Scotland. Large amounts of convective cloud
over Wales and northern England. Broken cloud in the Midlands and southern
England with some showers. Largely clear and sunny in the Low Countries.


UK min. temps on Wednesday night
http://www.medvale.demon.co.uk/weath...s/mn211004.jpg

Scotland 4 to 9°C; Scottish islands 6 to 9°C; Northern England 5 to 8°C;
Midlands 6 to 7°C; East Anglia 7 to 9°C; SE England 7 to 10°C; SW England
5 to 10°C; Wales 4 to 8°C; Northern Ireland 3 to 6°C.

Belfast Aldergrove and Copley 4.3°C, Ballycastle (NI) and Tulloch Bridge
4.2°C, Sennybridge 4.1°C, Lake Vyrnwy 3.9°C, Aviemore 3.6°C, Glenanne
(NI) 3.3°C, Lough Fea (NI) 3.2°C.

Coltishall 8.1°C, Heathrow 8.3°C, St Athan 8.4°C, Boulmer 8.6°C,
Herstmonceux 9.0°C, Guernsey 9.7°C, Solent MRSC 10.0°C.


UK max. temps on Thursday
http://www.medvale.demon.co.uk/weath...s/mx211004.jpg

Scotland 8 to 13°C; Northern Isles 10 to 12°C; Western Isles 9 to 11°C;
Northern England 9 to 13°C; Midlands 11 to 14°C; East Anglia 14 to 15°C;
SE England 13 to 16°C; SW England 12 to 15°C; Wales 10 to 15°C; Northern
Ireland 7 to 10°C.

Aviemore 7.7°C, Eskdalemuir and Copley 8.8°C, Belfast Aldergrove 9.0°C,
South Uist 9.7°C, Lerwick 10.1°C, Kinloss 10.3°C.

Chivenor, Gravesend and Guernsey 15.1°C, Farnborough 15.2°C, Yeovilton and
Bournemouth 15.3°C, Cardiff WC 15.5°C, London MO and Northolt 15.8°C,
Heathrow and Jersey 16.1°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

Rain across the northern half of Ireland, the Irish Sea and western
Scotland, and from NW England across the Midlands to East Anglia and London
at midnight on Wednesday night. Rain moves NE to affect the whole of
Scotland and NW England by dawn and by then showers have developed in Wales
and near the south coast of England. Outbreaks of rain in Wales and
northern England by midday continue through the afternoon. Some showers in
the SE and later also in SW and central southern England. More rain in
southern Scotland in the evening.

South Uist, Tiree and Tain Range 22 mm, Ballypatrick (NI) and Lerwick 23
mm, Sennybridge and Lake Vyrnwy 24 mm, Belfast Aldergrove, Barra,
Lusa/Skye and Keswick 25 mm, Eskdalemuir 26 mm, Glenanne (NI) and Port
Ellen on Islay 27 mm, Strathallan and Capel Curig 28 mm, West Freugh 31
mm.

Thunder in a number of places in north Wales and the north Midlands in the
afternoon and evening, and in SW Scotland and south Wales later. Thunder
also in places in extreme SE England.
http://imkpc3.physik.uni-karlsruhe.de/pics/Rsfloc3.gif or
http://www.wetterzentrale.de/topkarten/tkbeoblar.htm October 21
Intensity

Strongest gusts - Barra and Pembrey Sands 52 kn, Spadeadam 53 kn,
Aberporth, Mumbles and Portland 55 kn, St Catherine's Point 56 kn, Crosby
58 kn, Moel-y-Crio 66 kn.


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


Colin Youngs
Brussels