Friday 3rd September 2010

Meteosat 8 satellite picture from Ferdinand Valk’s site at 12.00 UTC
http://www.fvalk.com/images/Day_image/MSG-1200-EUR.jpg

Meteosat MSG-2 satellite picture from Bernard Burton’s site at 12.00
UTC http://www.woksat.info/etcsi03m/si03-msg-1200-uk.html

NOAA 19 satellite picture from Bernard Burton’s site at 12.16 UTC
http://www.woksat.info/etcsi03/si03-1216-b-uk.html

Plenty of sunshine over the British Isles with some high cloud and
shallow convection. Shallow convection over Belgium with more
extensive cloud near the Dutch border and NE of Brussels.


UK min. temps on Thursday night http://tinyurl.com/38sljrc

Shobdon 5.9°C, Lossiemouth 5.8°C, Baltasound and Capel Curig 5.6°C,
Charterhall 5.5°C, Exeter 4.9°C, Eskdalemuir 4.8°C, Tulloch Bridge
4.7°C, Altnaharra 4.2°C, Loch Glascarnoch 4.0°C, Aboyne 1.6°C.

Guernsey 13.9°C, Aberdaron and Mumbles 14.2°C, St Catherine’s Point
14.6°C, St Mary’s (Scilly) 15.5°C.


UK max. temps on Friday http://tinyurl.com/32rzewm

Fair Isle 14.1°C, Inverbervie 14.5°C, Lerwick 14.6°C, Kirkwall and
Wick 15.3°C, Baltasound 15.6°C.

Yeovilton 22.3°C, Altnaharra, Strathallan and Valley 22.4°C,
Heathrow and St James’s Park 22.5°C, St Angelo and Ballykelly
22.6°C, Lusa (Skye) 22.8°C, Castlederg 23.4°C.

OGIMET summary http://tinyurl.com/38xhdkp


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

Friday appears to have been a dry day over Britain.

Rainfall totals in 24 hours ending 18.00 UTC on Friday http://tinyurl.com/2uw9uye

2 mm reported from Wattisham but it seems to be a mistake.

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


Colin Youngs
Brussels