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

NOAA 18 VIS satellite picture from Bernard Burton's site at 12.56 UTC on
Thursday 21 July
http://www.btinternet.com/~wokingham...1256-b-uk.html

Eumetsat MSG-1 satellite picture from Bernard Burton's site at 12.00 UTC on
Thursday 21 July
http://www.btinternet.com/~wokingham...g-1200-uk.html

Bright in eastern Scotland and NE England. Sunny in most of Wales, the
west Midlands and southern England but mostly cloudy elsewhere in Britain.
Netherlands cloudy. Bright in western Belgium but increasingly cloudy
towards the east.


UK min. temps on Wednesday night
http://www.uni-koeln.de/math-nat-fak...europazoom.gif
or http://meteocentre.com/analyse/map_m...lang=en&map=uk blue
figures

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

Preacher and Charlwood 9.9°C, Wattisham 9.8°C, Scampton 9.7°C, Larkhill
9.5°C, Middle Wallop 9.4°C, Boltshope Park and Little Rissington 9.3°C,
Benson 8.0°C, Redhill 7.9°C, Shobdon 7.4°C.

Camborne 15.5°C, St Athan 15.6°C, Guernsey 15.7°C, St Mary's 16.1°C, St
Mawgan 16.5°C.


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

Scotland 14 to 24°C; Northern Isles 13 to 14°C; Western Isles 14 to 16°C;
Northern England 17 to 22°C; Midlands 18 to 25°C; East Anglia 18 to 21°C;
SE England 21 to 28°C; SW England 18 to 23°C; Wales 16 to 22°C; Northern
Ireland 14 to 20°C.

Baltasound 12.8°C, Fair Isle 13.3°C, Ballypatrick 13.5°C, Lerwick and
Rosehearty 13.6°C.

Larkhill and Farnborough 24.6°C, Lyneham 24.7°C, Shobdon 24.9°C, Middle
Wallop 25.1°C, Boscombe Down 25.3°C, Great Malvern 25.5°C, Bournemouth
25.6°C, Thorney Island 26.8°C, Solent MRSC 27.8°C.

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


Rainfall radar
http://www.metoffice.com/weather/eur...animation.html
A few showers visible over Ireland on Thursday afternoon and evening.
Isolated showers over England.

Kirkwall and Stornoway 1.0 mm, Loch Glascarnoch 1.2 mm, Lusa/Skye 1.4 mm,
Aberporth 1.6 mm, Aultbea 2.0 mm.


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


Colin Youngs
Brussels

Colin Youngs wrote:

UK max. temps on Thursday

Larkhill and Farnborough 24.6°C, Lyneham 24.7°C, Shobdon 24.9°C, Middle
Wallop 25.1°C, Boscombe Down 25.3°C, Great Malvern 25.5°C, Bournemouth
25.6°C, Thorney Island 26.8°C, Solent MRSC 27.8°C.

Cloud cover for most of the day kept the temperature well depressed here
- 21.9C was the high at 17:05pm, but the temperature didn't actually
rise above 20C until after 4pm.

--
Jonathan Stott
Canterbury Weather: http://www.canterburyweather.co.uk/
Reverse my e-mail address to reply by e-mail

On Thu, 21 Jul 2005 23:35:18 +0200, "Colin Youngs"
wrote:

Larkhill and Farnborough 24.6°C, Lyneham 24.7°C, Shobdon 24.9°C, Middle
Wallop 25.1°C, Boscombe Down 25.3°C, Great Malvern 25.5°C, Bournemouth
25.6°C, Thorney Island 26.8°C, Solent MRSC 27.8°C.

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

Once again I have an uncomfortable feeling about the Solent MRSC
maximum temperature. The highest half hourly METAR at Southampton A/P
(12 miles inland) was 24 deg C so a probable max there not exceeding
25. My own maximum (5 miles inland from Solent) was 25 degrees C +/-
0.5, albeit in a shaded screen.

Such discrepancies make me nervous. The wind direction at Solent was W
to NW during the afternoon so the maximum there should have been close
to that at the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton - does anyone
have access to Thursday's climatological data from there? I'd love to
find out what their maximum was.

--
Dave
Fareham

In uk.sci.weather on Thu, 21 Jul 2005 at 23:35:18, Colin Youngs wrote :

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

Larkhill and Farnborough 24.6°C, Lyneham 24.7°C, Shobdon 24.9°C, Middle
Wallop 25.1°C, Boscombe Down 25.3°C, Great Malvern 25.5°C, Bournemouth
25.6°C, Thorney Island 26.8°C, Solent MRSC 27.8°C.

I was surprised by how warm it got, too.

26.7C here.
--
Paul Hyett, Cheltenham