NOAA 18 VIS satellite picture from Dundee at 11.12 UTC on Friday 12 August
http://makeashorterlink.com/?T20E13A9B

NOAA 17 VIS satellite picture from DLR at 11.06 UTC on Friday 12 August
http://www.dfd.dlr.de/ftp/put/wetter...8121106.uk.jpg

Extensive cloud over Ireland, Scotland and northern England. Broken cloud
over the rest of England and Wales - showers over the Midlands. Heavy
showers and thunderstorms over the west and centre of the Netherlands.
Well broken cloud over Belgium but showers are developing.


UK min. temps on Thursday 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 10 to 14°C; Northern Isles 12°C; Western
Isles and Wales 9 to 14°C; Northern England, Midlands and East Anglia 12 to
14°C; SE England 11 to 14°C; SW England 12 to 15°C.

Altnaharra, Wick and Warcop Range 10.1°C, Ballycastle 10.0°C, Tulloch
Bridge and Aviemore 9.9°C, Loch Glascarnoch 9.8°C, Port Ellen on Islay
9.3°C, Lake Vyrnwy 9.1°C, Glen Ogle 8.3°C.

Heathrow 14.5°C, Plymouth 14.8°C, St Mary's and Guernsey 15.0°C, St
Mawgan 15.5°C.


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

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

Glen Ogle 11.9°C, Fair Isle 13.2°C, Lerwick 13.3°C, Loch Glascarnoch
14.5°C, Baltasound 14.6°C, Rosehearty 14.8°C.

Cardiff MO, Great Malvern and Benson 21.7°C, Redhill 21.9°C, Northolt
22.2°C, Boscombe Down, Bournemouth and Shoreham 22.3°C, Heathrow 22.5°C,
Thorney Island 23.3°C, Solent MRSC 23.6°C.

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


Rainfall radar
http://www.metoffice.com/weather/eur...animation.html
Showers move across central and eastern England on Friday afternoon and
evening. Rain moves into Ireland and western Scotland in the evening.

Topcliffe 10.8 mm, Spadeadam 12.6 mm, Leeming 12.9 mm, Keswick 13.8 mm,
Scampton 15.6 mm, Wainfleet 16.8 mm, Cranwell 22.4 mm, Coningsby 23.2 mm,
Warcop Range 26.0 mm, Dishforth 29.1 mm, Copley 34.4 mm.


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


Colin Youngs
Brussels