Meteosat 8 satellite picture from Ferdinand Valk's site at 12.00 UTC
on Saturday 5th 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 Saturday 5th July
http://www.woksat.info/etcqg05m/qg05-msg-1200-uk.html

NOAA 18 satellite picture from Bernard Burton's site at 13.39 UTC on
Saturday 5th July
http://www.woksat.info/etcqg05/qg05-1339-b-uk.html

Strongly marked depression to the south of Ireland with frontal cloud
extending round to southern Scotland and northern England, the North
Sea and the western half of Belgium.


UK min. temps on Friday night   http://tinyurl.com/6gq756

Leeming 8.6°C,  Glen Ogle and Edinburgh Gogarbank 8.2°C,  Aboyne
8.1°C,  Copley 7.9°C,  Spadeadam 7.7°C,  Kinloss 7.5°C,  Shap 7.1°C,
Loch Glascarnoch 6.3°C,  Redesdale 6.2°C,  Aviemore 4.9°C,  Altnaharra
4.3°C.

Northolt and Gravesend 16.0°C,  Heathrow and Shoeburyness 16.2°C,
Shoreham 16.7°C,  London MO 17.1°C.


UK max. temps on Saturday   http://tinyurl.com/54sjrf

Glen Ogle 12.0°C,  Wick 12.5°C,  Copley 13.0°C,  Ballypatrick 13.3°C,
Cardinham 13.5°C.

Crosby, Wattisham and Shoeburyness 21.9°C,  Scampton and Waddington
22.0°C,  Marham 22.2°C,  Holbeach 22.3°C,  Heathrow 22.4°C,  Coningsby
and Gravesend 22.7°C,  Cranwell and Weybourne 22.9°C.

OGIMET summary   http://tinyurl.com/6kgd74


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

Frontal rain moves NE over England and Wales during Saturday, reaching
Scotland in the afternoon.   Some heavy showers with thunder in
northern England behind the front.   Widespread rain and showers in SW
England and south Wales in the afternoon.

Rainfall totals in 24 hours ending 18.00 UTC on Saturday
http://tinyurl.com/586xkr

Lough Fea, Ballypatrick, Boulmer and Camborne 12 mm,  Albemarle,
Topcliffe and Aberporth 13 mm,  Mumbles 14 mm,  Sennybridge 16 mm,
Liscombe 18 mm,  Plymouth 20 mm,  Cardinham 24 mm,  Milford Haven 30
mm.

Peak gusts  -  Dunkeswell 42 kn,  Plymouth 43 kn,  Culdrose 47 kn,  St
Mary’s 52 kn.


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


Colin Youngs
Brussels