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

NOAA 18 VIS satellite picture from Bernard Burton's site at 12.42 UTC on
Wednesday 31 August
http://www.btinternet.com/~wokingham...1242-b-uk.html

Eumetsat MSG-1 satellite picture from Bernard Burton's site at 12.00 UTC on
Wednesday 31 August
http://www.btinternet.com/~wokingham...g-1200-uk.html

Rather disorderly bands of frontal cloud with embedded thunderstorms cover
Ireland, most of Scotland, and Wales and western England. Clear and sunny
in eastern England and over the Low Countries.


UK min. temps on Tuesday 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, Northern England and the Midlands 12 to 16°C; Northern Isles 11
to 13°C; Western Isles 14 to 15°C; East Anglia 14 to 16°C; SE England 13
to 18°C; SW England 14 to 17°C; Wales 12 to 17°C; Northern Ireland 13 to
16°C.

Baltasound and Boltshope Park 11.0°C, Shobdon 10.9°C, Capel Curig 10.8°C,
Lerwick 10.7°C, Copley 10.5°C, Shap 9.9°C, Fylingdales 4.0°C (?).

St Mary's, Camborne and Plymouth 17.2°C, St Mawgan 17.3°C, Heathrow
17.4°C, Solent MRSC 18.6°C, Guernsey 19.6°C.


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

Scotland 15 to 24°C; Northern Isles 13 to 16°C; Western Isles 15 to 17°C;
Northern England 19 to 29°C; Midlands 24 to 30°C; East Anglia 26 to 31°C;
SE England 24 to 32°C; SW England 18 to 28°C; Wales 19 to 25°C; Northern
Ireland 15 to 18°C.

Lerwick 13.7°C, Fair Isle 14.4°C, Baltasound 14.8°C, South Uist, Barra
and Inverbervie 15.0°C, Kirkwall 15.2°C.

Marham 30.0°C, Coleshill 30.1°C, Benson 30.5°C, Wittering and Charlwood
30.6°C, Bedford 31.1°C, Heathrow 31.8°C, Gravesend 32.0°C, Northolt
32.1°C, London MO 32.2°C.

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


Rainfall radar
http://www.metoffice.com/weather/eur...animation.html
Areas of rain with thunderstorms move across Britain - lying over western
Scotland and NE and central England by early evening.

Bingley and Dishforth 10 mm, St Angelo 12.6 mm, Tiree 14.8 mm, Castlederg
14.9 mm, Copley 15.0 mm, Topcliffe 15.6 mm, Aultbea 17.4 mm, Ballykelly
18.8 mm, Ballypatrick 19.4 mm, Port Ellen on Islay 27 mm, Lough Fea 32.2
mm.

Gust of 46 kn reported from Topcliffe and 50 kn from Dishforth.

Sferics - http://217.160.75.104/wz/pics/Rsfloc3.gif or
http://www.wetterzentrale.de/topkarten/tkbeoblar.htm August 31
Intensity
Broad band of quite intense thundery activity over England on Wednesday
afternoon but not much over the north Midlands.


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


Colin Youngs
Brussels

In uk.sci.weather on Wed, 31 Aug 2005 at 23:38:26, Colin Youngs wrote :

UK max. temps on Wednesday

Marham 30.0°C, Coleshill 30.1°C, Benson 30.5°C, Wittering and Charlwood
30.6°C, Bedford 31.1°C, Heathrow 31.8°C, Gravesend 32.0°C, Northolt
32.1°C, London MO 32.2°C.

Surprised somewhere didn't get hotter that *that*.
--
Paul Hyett, Cheltenham