Convective Outlook: Wed 06 Apr 2016
LOW
SLGT
MDT
HIGH
SVR
What do these risk levels mean?
Convective Outlook

VALID 06:00 UTC Wed 06 Apr 2016 - 05:59 UTC Thu 07 Apr 2016

ISSUED 21:09 UTC Tue 05 Apr 2016

ISSUED BY: Dan

A cold front will clear eastwards on Wednesday morning, although the back-bent occlusion will tend to stall across northern Scotland. A sharpening upper trough will slide southeastwards, bringing a large swathe of deep instability south of this occlusion complex to many parts of the British Isles, although deepest instability unlikely to reach southern Britain until Wednesday night.


Cold mid-levels atop relatively warm SSTs and diurnal heating over land will generate numerous showers, some perhaps weakly-electrified, hence a broad LOW threat level issued. The most likely areas to see some (sporadic) lightning will being over Northern Ireland and SW Scotland during the latter half of the morning, expanding across northern England, north Wales and the north Midlands through the afternoon - areas farther south have a much lower risk of lightning. That said, shear is much stronger over areas farther south and this may be enough to compensate the overall weaker instability to produce a few incidences of lightning.

Some small hail is possible in any stronger cores, perhaps locally above 1.0cm in diameter over parts of Ireland where there is likely to be a better overlap of instability and shear.