Meteosat 8 satellite picture from F. Valk's site at 12.00 UTC on Friday 23rd
September
http://www.fvalk.com/images/Day_imag...8-1200-EUR.jpg

NOAA 18 VIS satellite pictures from Bernard Burton's site at 13.51 UTC on
Friday 23rd September
http://www.btinternet.com/~wokingham...51-b-uk-n.html
http://www.btinternet.com/~wokingham...51-c-uk-s.html

Eumetsat MSG-1 satellite picture from Bernard Burton's site at 12.00 UTC on
Friday 23rd September
http://www.btinternet.com/~wokingham...g-1200-uk.html

Band of frontal cloud covers central and eastern Britain. Mass of shower
clouds over Ireland and western Scotland. Low Countries and much of the
rest of continental Europe still sunny.


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 10 to 15°C; Northern Isles 10 to 13°C; Western Isles and Northern
Ireland 11 to 13°C; Northern and SW England 10 to 14°C; Midlands 10 to
12°C; East Anglia 9 to 12°C; SE England 7 to 13°C; Wales 11 to 15°C.

06.00 - Bedford 9.5°C, Benson 9.4°C, Shoeburyness 9.3°C, Marham 9.1°C.
09.00 - Shoreham 7.9°C, Coltishall 7.8°C, Northolt 7.4°C, Bournemouth
7.3°C, Charlwood 5.4°C, Redhill 2.7°C.

06.00 - Aviemore 14.4°C, St Mary's 14.7°C, Guernsey 14.9°C, Prestwick
and Valley 15.0°C, Kinloss 15.3°C.


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

Scotland 13 to 17°C; Northern Isles 13 to 16°C; Western Isles 13 to 14°C;
Northern England and Wales 15 to 18°C; Midlands 17 to 21°C; East Anglia 18
to 22°C; SE England 18 to 21°C; SW England 16 to 20°C; Northern Ireland
12 to 13°C.

Lough Fea 12.4°C, Glen Ogle 12.5°C, Ballypatrick 12.8°C, Lerwick 13.4°C.

Shoreham 20.3°C, Marham 20.5°C, Shawbury 20.6°C, Bournemouth 20.8°C,
Manston 20.9°C, Gravesend and Herstmonceux 21.2°C, Weybourne and
Shoeburyness 21.5°C, Coltishall 22.1°C.

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


Rainfall radar
http://www.metoffice.com/weather/eur...animation.html
Cold front with a band of rain crosses eastern England on Friday afternoon.
Showers follow over northern and western Britain and persist in western
Scotland into the evening.

Baltasound 9 mm, Loch Glascarnoch 9.4 mm, Aultbea 10.2 mm, Keswick 10.4
mm, Shap 12.0 mm, Tulloch Bridge 12.2 mm, South Uist 12.4 mm, Stornoway
15.0 mm, Eskdalemuir 15.2 mm, Lusa/Skye 17.0 mm, Glasgow Bishopton 18.4
mm.


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


Colin Youngs
Brussels