Meteosat 8 satellite picture from Ferdinand Valk's site at 12.00 UTC
on Thursday 3rd July
http://www.fvalk.com/images/Day_image/METEOSAT-8-1200-EUR.jpg

Meteosat MSG-2 satellite picture from Bernard Burton's site at 12.00
UTC on Thursday 3rd July
http://www.woksat.info/etcqg03m/qg03-msg-1200-uk.html

NOAA 18 satellite picture from DLR at 13.52 UTC on Thursday 3rd July
ftp://taurus.caf.dlr.de/put/wetterbilder/UK/image1.jpg

Frontal cloud through the North Sea to the Low Countries.   Broken
convective cloud over the British Isles; large area of convection over
the north of Ireland.


UK min. temps on Wednesday night   http://tinyurl.com/624azq

Edinburgh Gogarbank 7.3°C,  Spadeadam 7.2°C,  Lough Fea 7.1°C,  Shap
6.9°C,  Aboyne 6.7°C,  Strathallan 6.4°C,  Loch Glascarnoch 6.3°C,
Tain Range 6.1°C,  Eskdalemuir 5.8°C,  Redesdale 5.4°C.

Mumbles 13.2°C,  Weybourne 13.3°C,  St Catherine’s Point 14.5°C,
London MO 14.9°C,  Solent MRSC 15.1°C.


UK max. temps on Thursday   http://tinyurl.com/6s72h6

Lerwick 12.7°C,  Fair Isle 13.5°C,  Lake Vyrnwy 14.0°C,  Glenanne
14.2°C,  St Angelo and Baltasound 14.3°C.

Cranwell and Marham 21.6°C,  Altnaharra and Manston 21.7°C,
Andrewsfield 21.8°C,  Wattisham 21.9°C,  Coningsby, Weybourne and
London MO 22.0°C,  Shoeburyness 22.1°C,  Gravesend 22.8°C.

OGIMET summary   http://tinyurl.com/65ww5z


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

Outbreaks of rain and showers move NW over SW England and Wales on
Thursday morning and then into Ireland, with heavy rain in parts of
Northern Ireland in the afternoon.   Line of showers moves north over
the Midlands into northern England in the afternoon with some showers
also elsewhere.

Rainfall totals in 24 hours ending 18.00 UTC on Thursday
http://tinyurl.com/5g7lxh

Ballykelly and Lough Fea 12 mm,  Spadeadam, Capel Curig and Yeovilton
13 mm,  Castlederg 14 mm,  Glenanne 15 mm,  Lerwick and Baltasound 16
mm,  Prestwick 17 mm,  Belfast Aldergrove 20 mm,  St Angelo 23 mm,
Portglenone 28 mm.


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


Colin Youngs
Brussels