Meteosat 8 satellite picture from F. Valk's site at 12.00 UTC on Thursday 26
May
http://www.fvalk.com/images/Day_imag...6-1200-eur.jpg

NOAA 18 VIS satellite picture from Bernard Burton's site at 14.00 UTC on
Thursday 26 May
http://www.btinternet.com/~wokingham...1400-b-uk.html

NOAA 16 VIS satellite picture from DLR at 13.03 UTC on Thursday 26 May
http://www.dfd.dlr.de/ftp/put/wetter...5261303.uk.jpg

Broken convective cloud over Scotland and Ireland but sunny in northern
England. Broken frontal cloud over the Midlands and SW England. Sunshine
and high cloud over the Low Countries.


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

Scotland 7 to 12°C; Northern Isles 8 to 10°C; Western Isles 9 to 10°C;
Northern England, Wales and the Midlands 11 to 13°C; East Anglia 11 to
15°C; SE England 8 to 15°C; SW England 9 to 13°C; Northern Ireland 6 to
9°C.

Bournemouth 8.5°C, Redhill 8.4°C, Lerwick 8.3°C, Machrihanish 7.9°C,
Ballycastle 7.8°C, Ballykelly 7.7°C, Lough Fea 6.8°C, Ballypatrick 6.7°C,
Glen Ogle 6.5°C, Castlederg 6.4°C.

Leeming 13.2°C, Solent MRSC 13.6°C, Heathrow 14.1°C, Langdon Bay 14.6°C,
Marham 14.8°C.


UK max. temps on Thursday
http://www.medvale.demon.co.uk/weath...s/mx260505.jpg

Scotland 11 to 19°C; Northern Isles 12 to 14°C; Western Isles 12 to 16°C;
Northern England 15 to 20°C; Midlands 19 to 23°C; East Anglia 21 to 24°C;
SE England 16 to 25°C; SW England 15 to 19°C; Wales 15 to 18°C; Northern
Ireland 16 to 18°C.

Glen Ogle 11.1°C, Lerwick 11.5°C, Fair Isle 12.2°C, Aultbea 12.3°C,
Lusa/Skye 12.4°C, Baltasound 12.6°C.

Charlwood 23.0°C, Holbeach and Andrewsfield 23.2°C, Coltishall 23.3°C,
Manston 23.4°C, Wattisham 23.6°C, Heathrow 24.4°C, Northolt 24.5°C,
Shoeburyness 24.6°C, London MO 24.7°C, Gravesend 25.4°C.

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


Rainfall radar
http://www.metoffice.com/weather/eur...animation.html
Showers in north and west Scotland late on Thursday afternoon. Rain moves
into southern Ireland in the evening.

Kirkwall 11.6 mm, Dundrennan 12.6 mm, Strathallan 13.8 mm, Tiree 14.6 mm,
Glasgow Bishopton 15.1 mm, Baltasound 15.4 mm, Lerwick 15.5 mm,
Eskdalemuir 21.3 mm, Lusa/Skye 27.8 mm, Aultbea 45.6 mm.


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


Colin Youngs
Brussels