Meteosat 8 satellite picture from F. Valk's site at 12.00 UTC on Saturday 16
April
http://www.fvalk.com/images/Day_imag...6-1200-eur.jpg

NOAA 16 VIS satellite picture from Bernard Burton's site at 14.10 UTC on
Saturday 16 April
http://www.btinternet.com/~wokingham...1410-b-uk.html

NOAA 16 VIS satellite picture from Dundee at 14.11 UTC on Saturday 16 April
http://makeashorterlink.com/?S4E7216EA

NOAA 16 VIS satellite picture from DLR at 14.01 UTC on Saturday 16 April
http://www.dfd.dlr.de/ftp/put/wetter...4161401.uk.jpg

Extensive cloud over the British Isles with a low centre in the Irish Sea.
Bright in SW Wales and SW England. Frontal cloud over the Low Countries
with thundery showers in SE Belgium.


UK min. temps on Friday night
http://www.medvale.demon.co.uk/weath...s/mn160405.jpg

Scotland, Northern England, East Anglia and Northern Ireland 0 to 4°C;
Northern Isles 2 to 4°C; Western Isles and SE England -1 to 4°C; Midlands
2 to 5°C; SW England 3 to 6°C; Wales 1 to 5°C.

06z Bingley 0.1°C, Ballycastle and Charlwood 0.0°C,
Herstmonceux -0.1°C, Copley and Coltishall -0.2°C, Odiham -0.4°C.
09z Glen Ogle and Port Ellen on Islay -1.1°C, Bournemouth and
Shoreham -1.2°C, Farnborough -1.3°C.

06z Guernsey 4.5°C, Aberporth 4.6°C, St Athan 5.2°C, Camborne and
Culdrose 5.4°C, St Mawgan 5.9°C, St Mary's 6.7°C.


UK max. temps on Saturday
http://www.uni-koeln.de/math-nat-fak...europazoom.gif

Scotland and Northern England 6 to 10°C; Northern Isles 8 to 9°C; Western
Isles 8 to 11°C; Midlands and SW England 9 to 11°C; East Anglia 10 to
12°C; SE England 10 to 13°C; Wales 7 to 11°C; Northern Ireland 5 to 10°C.

Glen Ogle 4.3°C, Shap 4.6°C, Ballypatrick 4.8°C, Belfast Aldergrove
5.7°C, Spadeadam 5.8°C, St Bees Head 6.0°C, Copley 6.1°C.

Great Malvern 11.6°C, Cardiff MO and Wattisham 11.7°C, Shoreham 11.9°C,
Solent MRSC and Langdon Bay 12.0°C, Coltishall, Thorney Island and
Bournemouth 12.3°C, Herstmonceux 13.1°C.

http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/...yesterday.html


Rainfall radar http://www.westwind.ch/w_0rad.php United Kingdom -30h ANIM

Rain and some sleet with snow on high ground moves slowly west over
Scotland, northern England and north Wales on Friday night. Most
precipitation dies out during Saturday morning but more rain reaches western
Ireland in the evening.

Linton-on-Ouse 16.6 mm, Loftus 16.7 mm, Boulmer 17.1 mm, Capel Curig 18.0
mm, Keswick 18.8 mm, Ronaldsway 19.9 mm, Copley 20.2 mm, Charterhall
20.6 mm, Leeming 21.6 mm, Albemarle 28.8 mm, Newcastle 33.2 mm.


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


Colin Youngs
Brussels