Meteosat 8 satellite picture from Ferdinand Valk's site at 12.00 UTC on
Thursday 2nd July
http://www.fvalk.com/images/Day_imag...8-1200-EUR.jpg

Meteosat MSG-2 satellite picture from Bernard Burton's site at 12.00 UTC on
Thursday 2nd July http://www.woksat.info/etcrg02m/rg02-msg-1200-uk.html

NOAA 18 satellite picture from Bernard Burton's site at 14.01 UTC on
Thursday 2nd July http://www.woksat.info/etcrg02/rg02-1401-b-uk.html

Front from Ireland to SW Britain. Thunderstorms developing in NW Scotland.
Sunny in most of England. Sunshine and scattered shallow convection over
Belgium.


UK min. temps on Wednesday night http://tinyurl.com/l45clf

Manston 12.7°C, Holbeach 12.6°C, Marham, Bedford and Charlwood 12.4°C,
Cranwell 12.3°C, Leconfield and Wainfleet 12.1°C, Shoeburyness 11.7°C,
Andrewsfield 11.0°C.

Valley and Hawarden 17.3°C, Jersey 17.6°C, Shawbury 18.1°C.


UK max. temps on Thursday http://tinyurl.com/l2lmok

Fair Isle 17.2°C, Lerwick 17.3°C, Baltasound and Tiree 17.7°C.

Brize Norton and Middle Wallop 29.3°C, Edinburgh Gogarbank and Carlisle
29.4°C, London MO 29.5°C, Farnborough 29.6°C, Benson and Northolt 29.7°C,
Herstmonceux 30.1°C, Charlwood 30.5°C, Heathrow 30.6°C.

OGIMET summary http://tinyurl.com/nbyaxy


Rainfall radar http://www.meteox.com/h.aspx?r=&soort=loop24uur&URL or
http://www.raintoday.co.uk/

Outbreaks of rain move north over western Britain and Ireland on Thursday
with thunder in places. Thunderstorms in NW and N Scotland in the
afternoon.

Sferics http://tinyurl.com/mm2h78

Rainfall totals in 24 hours ending 18.00 UTC on Thursday
http://tinyurl.com/mgttkq

Ballypatrick, Loch Glascarnoch and St Mary's (Scilly) 10 mm, Portglenone 11
mm, Milford Haven 14 mm, Glenanne 15 mm, Tain Range 16 mm, Camborne and
Culdrose 21 mm, Belfast Aldergrove 22 mm.


Location of some UK stations
http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/educatio...r_data_uk.html


Colin Youngs
Brussels

On 2 July, 21:06, "Colin Youngs" wrote:


Brize Norton and Middle Wallop 29.3°C, *Edinburgh Gogarbank and Carlisle
29.4°C, *London MO 29.5°C, *Farnborough 29.6°C, *Benson and Northolt 29.7°C,
Herstmonceux 30.1°C, *Charlwood 30.5°C, *Heathrow 30.6°C.


Today's max 30.9°C here. Stevenson screen, open site. Not often I'm
hotter than any in the synop network, but that's the second day on the
trot.

--
Stephen Burt
Stratfield Mortimer, Berkshire

On Thu, 2 Jul 2009 at 22:06:26, Colin Youngs wrote
in uk.sci.weather :

UK max. temps on Thursday http://tinyurl.com/l2lmok

Brize Norton and Middle Wallop 29.3°C, Edinburgh Gogarbank and Carlisle
29.4°C, London MO 29.5°C, Farnborough 29.6°C, Benson and Northolt 29.7°C,
Herstmonceux 30.1°C, Charlwood 30.5°C, Heathrow 30.6°C.

So close... 30.3C here.
--
Paul Hyett, Cheltenham (change 'invalid83261' to 'blueyonder' to email me)

"Paul Hyett" wrote in message
...
On Thu, 2 Jul 2009 at 22:06:26, Colin Youngs wrote
in uk.sci.weather :

UK max. temps on Thursday http://tinyurl.com/l2lmok

Brize Norton and Middle Wallop 29.3°C, Edinburgh Gogarbank and Carlisle
29.4°C, London MO 29.5°C, Farnborough 29.6°C, Benson and Northolt
29.7°C,
Herstmonceux 30.1°C, Charlwood 30.5°C, Heathrow 30.6°C.

So close... 30.3C here.
--
Paul Hyett, Cheltenham (change 'invalid83261' to 'blueyonder' to email me)

He he 19.3C max. in Haytor (admittedly in cloud), warmest this spell has
been 23.7C in screen. Never had 30C yet since moving here in April 2002. If
we ever do (and I hope not), it will be bloomin hot elsewhere in UK for
sure!

Will
--

Will Hand wrote:
He he 19.3C max. in Haytor (admittedly in cloud), warmest this spell
has been 23.7C in screen. Never had 30C yet since moving here in
April 2002. If we ever do (and I hope not), it will be bloomin hot
elsewhere in UK for sure!

Exceeding 30°C is a rarity here. Far too close to the sea but the 30°C has
been broken on just three occasions since moving here in Spring 2005.

And they were all together:

July 2006
17th 30.3°C
18th 30.4°C
19th 30.8°C.

With DPs around 20°C at the time, I remember it as being decidedly sticky.
________________
Nick.
Otter Valley, Devon
83 m amsl
http://www.ottervalley.co.uk

On 3 July, 08:46, "Will Hand" wrote:
"Paul Hyett" wrote in message

...

On Thu, 2 Jul 2009 at 22:06:26, Colin Youngs wrote
in uk.sci.weather :

UK max. temps on Thursday *http://tinyurl.com/l2lmok

Brize Norton and Middle Wallop 29.3°C, *Edinburgh Gogarbank and Carlisle
29.4°C, *London MO 29.5°C, *Farnborough 29.6°C, *Benson and Northolt
29.7°C,
Herstmonceux 30.1°C, *Charlwood 30.5°C, *Heathrow 30.6°C.

So close... 30.3C here.
--
Paul Hyett, Cheltenham (change 'invalid83261' to 'blueyonder' to email me)

He he 19.3C max. in Haytor (admittedly in cloud), warmest this spell has
been 23.7C in screen. Never had 30C yet since moving here in April 2002. If
we ever do (and I hope not), it will be bloomin hot elsewhere in UK for
sure!

Will
-- *

Highest temperature I've recorded in Penzance was 29.7C on 17th July
2006, which very close to the all time high. There have been 3 nights
with a minimum 19C, the warmest 19.6C on 05/08/03. (Records start
1991) I seem to remember it never dropped below 22C at Newquay that
night.

Driest June here since 1996.

Graham
Penzance