Meteosat 8 satellite picture from F. Valk's site at 12.00 UTC on Wednesday
25 May
http://www.fvalk.com/images/Day_imag...5-1200-eur.jpg

NOAA 18 VIS satellite picture from Bernard Burton's site at 14.10 UTC on
Wednesday 25 May
http://www.btinternet.com/~wokingham...1410-b-uk.html

NOAA 16 VIS satellite picture from Dundee at 13.24 UTC on Wednesday 25 May
http://makeashorterlink.com/?D5CC2542B

NOAA 16 VIS satellite picture from DLR at 13.14 UTC on Wednesday 25 May
http://www.dfd.dlr.de/ftp/put/wetter...5251314.uk.jpg

Frontal cloud over Ireland, Scotland and northern England. Fairly
extensive sunshine over Wales and the rest of England. Quite sunny over
the Low Countries - some high and medium-level cloud over the south of the
Netherlands and Belgium.


UK min. temps on Tuesday night
http://www.medvale.demon.co.uk/weath...s/mn250505.jpg

Scotland 1 to 10°C; Northern Isles 3 to 7°C; Western Isles 4 to 9°C;
Northern and SW England and Northern Ireland 9 to 11°C; Midlands 10 to
12°C; East Anglia 8 to 11°C; SE England and Wales 8 to 12°C.

Aviemore 6.9°C, Kirkwall 6.8°C, Aberdeen 6.6°C, Fair Isle 6.5°C, Aultbea
5.4°C, Lerwick 5.3°C, Glen Ogle 5.2°C, Loch Glascarnoch 4.7°C, Stornoway
3.6°C, Baltasound 3.3°C, Aboyne 1.2°C.

St Athan Shawbury, Camborne and Plymouth 11.1°C, Leeming 11.4°C, Solent
MRSC and Herstmonceux 11.6°C, St Mary's 12.1°C.


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

Scotland 11 to 16°C; Northern Isles 9 to 12°C; Western Isles 12 to 15°C;
Northern England 12 to 21°C; Midlands 19 to 21°C; East Anglia 20 to 22°C;
SE England 17 to 22°C; SW England 15 to 21°C; Wales 14 to 18°C; Northern
Ireland 14 to 17°C.

(SYNOP sites only)

Eskdalemuir 11.5°C, Stornoway 11.9°C, Wick 12.1°C, Kirkwall and
Ronaldsway 12.4°C, South Uist 12.6°C.

Waddington 21.0°C, Watnall 21.1°C, Bridlington, Marham and Coleshill
21.3°C, Wattisham 21.6°C, Heathrow 22.2°C, Coltishall 22.5°C.

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


Rainfall radar
http://www.metoffice.com/weather/eur...animation.html
Large area of rain moves NE over Ireland and Scotland late on Wednesday
afternoon and in the evening. Some heavy rain in western Scotland.

(Incomplete list) Belfast Aldergrove and Machrihanish 11 mm, Eskdalemuir
13 mm, Castlederg 15.3 mm, Strathallan 16.0 mm, Lough Fea 16.2 mm,
Glasgow Bishopton 16.5 mm, Prestwick 17 mm.


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


Colin Youngs
Brussels

In uk.sci.weather on Thu, 26 May 2005 at 00:33:36, Colin Youngs wrote :

UK max. temps on Wednesday

Waddington 21.0°C, Watnall 21.1°C, Bridlington, Marham and Coleshill
21.3°C, Wattisham 21.6°C, Heathrow 22.2°C, Coltishall 22.5°C.

Not *just* eastern England - 22.3C here yesterday.
--
Paul Hyett, Cheltenham

In uk.sci.weather on Thu, 26 May 2005 at 00:33:36, Colin Youngs wrote :

UK max. temps on Wednesday

Waddington 21.0°C, Watnall 21.1°C, Bridlington, Marham and Coleshill
21.3°C, Wattisham 21.6°C, Heathrow 22.2°C, Coltishall 22.5°C.

Not *just* eastern England - 22.3C here yesterday.
--
Paul Hyett, Cheltenham