Summary of UK Weather for Saturday 09 August 2008.

Much of the UK remained dry during the early hours of the morning
with clear spells in the east but cloud was increasing across the
west. Locally heavy rain was however spreading in across Northern
Ireland and this rain reached western parts of the UK towards the end
of the night. Thick cloud and locally heavy rain then continued to
spread eastwards across the rest of the UK through the morning whilst
Northern Ireland became drier. There were some drier spells at times
during the afternoon, especially for parts of Scotland and northern
England. However, as the afternoon another pulse of heavy rain spread
in from the south-west bringing some heavy downpours to many areas,
especially central and southern England, Wales and Northern Ireland.
This then continued north-eastwards across northern England and
Scotland during the evening, with heavy downpours lingering across
Northern Ireland with some very high rainfall totals here. The rain
became lighter and patchier across the southern half of the UK during
the evening.

Feeling rather cool in the rain with temperatures generally around or
below average. Also very windy, esecially around western and southern coasts with gusts over 40-50mph.

Extremes of Temperature, Rainfall and Sunshine for the 24 hours ending 09/08/2008

Highest Day Max : KILLOWEN : 24.3C

Lowest Day Max : FAIR ISLE : 12.7C

Lowest Night Min : TULLOCH BRIDGE : 3.9C

Highest Rainfall : CAPEL CURIG : 59.0mm

Highest Sunshine : MANSTON : 5.0Hours