Meteosat 8 satellite picture from F. Valk's site at 12.00 UTC on Friday 9th
September
http://www.fvalk.com/images/Day_imag...8-1200-EUR.jpg

NOAA 18 VIS satellite picture from Bernard Burton's site at 12.51 UTC on
Friday 9th September
http://www.btinternet.com/~wokingham...51-d-uk-s.html

Eumetsat MSG-1 satellite picture from Bernard Burton's site at 12.00 UTC on
Friday 9th September
http://www.btinternet.com/~wokingham...g-1200-uk.html

Dense cloud over Ireland and northern and western Britain. Broken cloud
over the Midlands and southern England - much of it high. Belgium mostly
cloudy with thundery outbreaks in the east. Cloud is more broken over the
Netherlands.


UK min. temps on Thursday night
http://www.medvale.demon.co.uk/weath...s/mn090905.jpg

Scotland 2 to 12°C; Northern Isles 5 to 8°C; Western Isles 4 to 11°C;
Northern England 10 to 15°C; Midlands 12 to 16°C; East Anglia 12 to 15°C;
SE England 9 to 16°C; SW England and Wales 13 to 16°C; Northern Ireland 10
to 13°C.

Aboyne and Lusa/Skye 7.1°C, Kinloss 5.9°C, Tain Range 5.3°C, Kirkwall
4.9°C, Stornoway 4.1°C, Cairnwell 3.5°C, Wick 2.8°C, Loch Glascarnoch
2.0°C, Altnaharra -2.6°C.

Langdon Bay 16.0°C, St Athan, Camborne, St Mawgan and Culdrose 16.1°C, St
Mary's 16.2°C.


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

Scotland 11 to 16°C; Northern Isles 12 to 14°C; Western Isles 13 to 15°C;
Northern England 11 to 20°C; Midlands 20 to 24°C; East Anglia 20 to 25°C;
SE England 21 to 27°C; SW England 16 to 25°C; Wales 17 to 21°C; Northern
Ireland 11 to 14°C.

Cairnwell 5.3°C, Glen Ogle 7.3°C, Spadeadam 10.8°C, Eskdalemuir and
Redesdale 11.1°C, Lough Fea 11.3°C.

Kenley 24.9°C, Marham 25.0°C, Andrewsfield 25.3°C, Bedford 25.5°C,
Redhill 25.6°C, London MO 26.1°C, Charlwood 26.3°C, Gravesend 26.6°C,
Heathrow 26.8°C, Northolt 26.9°C.

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


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

Outbreaks of rain across central and southern Scotland and northern England
on Friday afternoon move gradually away eastwards towards evening. Showers
and thunderstorms develop in SE England during the early evening.
Outbreaks of rain - heavy in places - move from the SW across Wales and SW
England.

Ballypatrick and Carlisle 20 mm, Aberdaron 21 mm, Leeming 21.7 mm,
Bingley 22 mm, Milford Haven 25.1 mm, Shap 25.4 mm, Albemarle 26.2 mm,
Boulmer 27.6 mm, Copley 31.0 mm, Newcastle 31.4 mm, Loftus 37.2 mm.

Sferics - http://217.160.75.104/wz/pics/Rsfloc3.gif or
http://www.wetterzentrale.de/topkarten/tkbeoblar.htm September 9
Intensity

Thunderstorms move west through east and SE England to central southern
England on Friday evening.


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


Colin Youngs
Brussels

In uk.sci.weather on Fri, 9 Sep 2005 at 23:27:00, Colin Youngs wrote :
Meteosat 8 satellite picture from F. Valk's site at 12.00 UTC on Friday 9th

UK min. temps on Thursday night

Altnaharra -2.6°C.

Langdon Bay 16.0°C

That's *some* contrast across the country!

UK max. temps on Friday

Cairnwell 5.3°C

Northolt 26.9°C.

Ditto.
--
Paul Hyett, Cheltenham

Paul Hyett wrote in message ...
:In uk.sci.weather on Fri, 9 Sep 2005 at 23:27:00, Colin Youngs wrote :
:UK min. temps on Thursday night
:Altnaharra -2.6°C.
:Langdon Bay 16.0°C
:That's *some* contrast across the country!

Indeed. I did wonder if the Altnaharra figure was correct as the next
lowest was Loch Glascarnoch at 2.0°C.

:UK max. temps on Friday
:Cairnwell 5.3°C
:Northolt 26.9°C.

Cairnwell is at 933 metres asl and so not really representative. Even so,
some places at lower elevation in northern England and Scotland had max.
temps of only 11 or 12°C. See Trevor Harley's post.

Colin Youngs
Brussels