NOAA 18 VIS satellite picture from Bernard Burton's site at 12.39 UTC on
Friday 3 June
http://www.btinternet.com/~wokingham...1239-c-uk.html

NOAA 17 VIS satellite picture from Dundee at 11.13 UTC on Friday 3 June
http://makeashorterlink.com/?G3653223B

NOAA 16 VIS satellite picture from DLR at 13.11 UTC on Friday 3 June
http://www.dfd.dlr.de/ftp/put/wetter...6031311.uk.jpg

Broken convective cloud over the British Isles with a more organised area of
cloud over SW England. Line of thunderstorms through the English Channel
into the southern North Sea.


UK min. temps on Thursday night
http://meteocentre.com/analyse/map_m...lang=en&map=uk Blue figures

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

Bedford 9.4°C, Rosehearty 9.3°C, Copley 9.2°C, Aviemore and Leek 9.1°C,
Altnaharra 9.0°C, Glen Ogle and Wick 8.1°C, Baltasound 7.6°C, Kirkwall
7.5°C, Fair Isle 6.9°C, Lerwick 6.8°C.

St Mawgan and Heathrow 12.3°C, St Mary's 12.4°C, Leeming and Shawbury
12.5°C, Solent MRSC 12.6°C.


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

Scotland 13 to 20°C; Northern Isles 9 to 14°C; Western Isles 14 to 17°C;
Northern England 15 to 20°C; Midlands 17 to 22°C; East Anglia 19 to 21°C;
SE England 14 to 23°C; SW England 14 to 20°C; Wales 13 to 17°C; Northern
Ireland 16 to 18°C.

Lerwick 9.2°C, Baltasound 10.3°C, Fair Isle 10.6°C, Wick 12.9°C, Glen
Ogle 13.2°C, Kirkwall 13.3°C.

Bridlington and Coltishall 20.3°C, Farnborough 20.4°C, Redhill 20.9°C,
Weybourne 21.3°C, Marham 21.5°C, Holbeach 21.7°C, Northolt and Heathrow
22.3°C, Gravesend 22.6°C, London MO 23.4°C.

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


Rainfall radar
http://www.metoffice.com/weather/eur...animation.html
Outbreaks of rain move NE over southern England and the Midlands on Friday
afternoon and evening with thunder in places in the east. Showers in
Scotland and Ireland and moving into Wales and SW England.

Aultbea 14.0 mm, Stornoway and Andrewsfield 14.4 mm, Scampton 14.6 mm,
Odiham 15.9 mm, Kirkwall 16 mm, Lusa/Skye 17.2 mm, Altnaharra 17.6 mm,
Tain Range 18.4 mm, Wick 18.6 mm, Manston 24.6 mm.


http://217.160.75.104/wz/pics/Rsfloc3.gif or
http://www.wetterzentrale.de/topkarten/tkbeoblar.htm June 3 Intensity
Thunder in the morning in SE England and in the afternoon and early evening
in East Anglia and NE England.


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


Colin Youngs
Brussels