Meteosat 8 satellite picture from F. Valk's site at 12.00 UTC on Saturday
17th September
http://www.fvalk.com/images/Day_imag...8-1200-EUR.jpg

NOAA 18 VIS satellite picture from Bernard Burton's site at 13.11 UTC on
Saturday 17th September
http://www.btinternet.com/~wokingham...1311-b-uk.html

Eumetsat MSG-1 satellite picture from Bernard Burton's site at 12.00 UTC on
Saturday 17th September
http://www.btinternet.com/~wokingham...g-1200-uk.html

Frontal cloud over northern Britain and the north of Ireland but quite sunny
in central and eastern England. Broken convective cloud over the Low
Countries with showers from the North Sea over the Netherlands and western
Belgium.


UK min. temps on Friday 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 0 to 10°C; Northern Isles 4 to 7°C; Western Isles 6 to 10°C;
Northern England and the Midlands 1 to 6°C; East Anglia 4 to 10°C; SE
England 2 to 8°C; SW England 1 to 8°C; Wales 2 to 10°C; Northern Ireland
6 to 8°C.

06.00 - Tulloch Bridge and Yeovilton 1.0°C, Topcliffe 0.9°C.
09.00 - Saughall and Pershore 0.6°C, Warcop Range 0.5°C, Woodford 0.4°C,
Redesdale 0.2°C, Benson -0.1°C, Eskdalemuir -0.5°C, Shap -1.7°C.

06.00 - Ronaldsway 10.0°C, Aberporth 10.1°C, Machrihanish and Valley
10.2°C, Guernsey 10.4°C, St Mary's 11.4°C.


UK max. temps on Saturday
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 12 to 15°C; Midlands and SE England 15 to 18°C; East
Anglia 14 to 15°C; SW England 14 to 17°C; Wales 13 to 16°C; Northern
Ireland 11 to 15°C.

Spadeadam 10.2°C, Eskdalemuir and Warcop Range 11.1°C, Shap 11.8°C,
Lerwick 11.9°C.

Cardiff MO 16.7°C, Heathrow and Gravesend 16.9°C, Thorney Island 17.2°C,
St Catherine's Point and London MO 17.4°C, Portland and Bournemouth 17.5°C,
Great Malvern 17.6°C, Solent MRSC 18.1°C.

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


Rainfall radar
http://www.metoffice.com/weather/eur...animation.html
Outbreaks of rain cross Scotland and northern England from the NW on
Saturday afternoon and evening.

Rosehearty 5.2 mm, Stornoway 6.6 mm, Baltasound 7.0 mm, Port Ellen on
Islay 7.8 mm, Aultbea 11.2 mm, Kirkwall 11.8 mm, Lerwick and Tiree 12.6
mm, Loch Glascarnoch 12.8 mm, Fair Isle 14 mm, Lusa/Skye 15.4 mm.


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


Colin Youngs
Brussels