Meteosat 8 satellite picture from F. Valk's site at 12.00 UTC on Thursday 11
August
http://www.fvalk.com/images/Day_imag...1-1200-eur.jpg

NOAA 18 VIS satellite picture from Dundee at 12.45 UTC on Thursday 11 August
http://makeashorterlink.com/?I2F46699B

NOAA 17 VIS satellite picture from DLR at 13.19 UTC on Thursday 11 August
http://www.dfd.dlr.de/ftp/put/wetter...8111319.uk.jpg

Mostly cloudy over Scotland and northern England but cloud is well broken in
the rest of Britain - sunny again in SW England. Showers are developing in
the west Midlands and eastern England. Large amounts of cloud over the
Netherlands and heavy showers with thunder are developing over Belgium.


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

Drumalbin and Sennybridge 9.5°C, Aboyne 9.4°C, Wick and Benson 9.3°C,
Glen Ogle 8.9°C, Eskdalemuir 8.4°C, Warcop Range 8.1°C, Redhill 7.3°C,
Tulloch Bridge 7.1°C, Shap 6.5°C.

Solent MRSC and Guernsey 14.7°C, Coltishall 14.8°C, Valley 14.9°C, St
Mary's 15.0°C, Langdon Bay 15.1°C, St Mawgan 16.0°C.


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

Scotland 13 to 20°C; Northern Isles 14 to 15°C; Western Isles 15 to 17°C;
Northern England 17 to 23°C; Midlands 22 to 26°C; East Anglia 21 to 26°C;
SE England 21 to 27°C; SW England 19 to 25°C; Wales 18 to 21°C; Northern
Ireland 16 to 18°C.

Loch Glascarnoch and Glen Ogle 13.4°C, Baltasound 13.8°C, Fair Isle
14.0°C, Lerwick and Tiree 14.6°C.

Shawbury, Benson, Andrewsfield and Farnborough 25.9°C, Great Malvern
26.0°C, London MO and Gravesend 26.1°C, Heathrow 26.4°C, Charlwood
26.9°C, Northolt 27.1°C.

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


Rainfall radar
http://www.metoffice.com/weather/eur...animation.html
Area of heavy showers moves eastwards across southern Scotland and northern
England on Thursday afternoon. Thunderstorm moves across the Midlands with
some showers also developing over east and SE England.

Boulmer 3 mm, Tiree 3.7 mm, Eskdalemuir 3.9 mm, Port Ellen on Islay 4.3
mm, Ballypatrick and Redesdale 4.4 mm, Topcliffe and Leeming 5.6 mm, Shap
15.8 mm, Warcop Range 34.4 mm.

Sferics http://217.160.75.104/wz/pics/Rsfloc3.gif or
http://www.wetterzentrale.de/topkarten/tkbeoblar.htm August 11
Intensity


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


Colin Youngs
Brussels