Meteosat 8 satellite picture from F. Valk's site at 12.00 UTC on Thursday 18
August
http://www.fvalk.com/images/Day_imag...8-1200-eur.jpg

NOAA 17 VIS satellite picture from Dundee at 12.14 UTC on Thursday 18 August
http://makeashorterlink.com/?H1DB213AB

NOAA 17 VIS satellite picture from DLR at 12.09 UTC on Thursday 18 August
http://www.dfd.dlr.de/ftp/put/wetter...8181209.uk.jpg

Broad band of frontal cloud through Scotland, eastern Ireland and the Irish
Sea. Cloud moving into Wales and western England. Still quite sunny in
central and eastern England with convective cloud development. Sunny in
the Low Countries except for some cloud in eastern 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 and Northern England 11 to 15°C; Northern Isles 11 to 12°C;
Western Isles 12 to 15°C; Midlands 9 to 13°C; East Anglia and SE England
10 to 15°C; SW England 9 to 14°C; Wales 10 to 16°C; Northern Ireland 12
to 13°C.

Trawsgoed and Woodford 10.0°C, Leconfield 9.8°C, Yeovilton 9.2°C,
Pershore 9.0°C, Shawbury 8.8°C, Shobdon 8.7°C, Hereford 8.6°C, Redhill
8.4°C, Sennybridge 8.0°C.

Heathrow and Guernsey 15.1°C, Langdon Bay 15.3°C, Ronaldsway 15.4°C, St
Mary's 15.6°C, Valley 15.7°C.


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

Scotland 15 to 20°C; Northern Isles 13 to 16°C; Northern Ireland and
Western Isles 17 to 19°C; Northern England 17 to 25°C; Midlands 23 to
27°C; East Anglia 24 to 26°C; SE England 24 to 29°C; SW England 18 to
26°C; Wales 17 to 21°C.

Lerwick 13.0°C, Fair Isle 13.3°C, Baltasound 13.6°C, Glen Ogle 13.8°C,
Drumalbin 14.7°C, Wick 15.0°C, Kirkwall 15.1°C.

Middle Wallop and Herstmonceux 27.3°C, Redhill 27.4°C, Benson 27.6°C,
Northolt 28.3°C, Charlwood 28.4°C, Gravesend 28.7°C, Heathrow 29.0°C,
London MO and Manston 29.4°C.

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


Rainfall radar
http://www.metoffice.com/weather/eur...animation.html

Band of rain moves slowly east over southern Scotland and into Wales and SW
England on Thursday afternoon and evening. Some heavy rain in SW England
but the rain area breaks up as it moves into Wales and England. Some heavy
showers and outbreaks of rain develop ahead of it from the Midlands to
central southern England in the evening.

Aviemore 15 mm, Ballykelly 17.2 mm, Machrihanish 17.6 mm, Port Ellen on
Islay 17.7 mm, Fair Isle 18 mm, Tulloch Bridge 18.4 mm, Wick 18.5 mm, St
Angelo 19.8 mm, Ballycastle 22 mm, Portglenone 22.6 mm.


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


Colin Youngs
Brussels