This visible satellite picture from Thursday does show the UK, you should be able make out place names. The colourful speckling on the right is the radar rainfall, last night's rain now clearing away into the North Sea. What stands out on this Visible sat. pic (and wouldn't be on a IR InfraRed one) is 2 shadows. The main one, the dark streak from the top to middle of image. A waving cold front is moving across the UK this morning. The sun, before 8am, is still low in the east and so the bright white frontal coloud is showing up, crossing Edinburgh down to Bradford. This frontal cloud is higher and casting a shadow behind it, which is the dark patch.
