Convective Outlook: Mon 31 Jul 2017
LOW
SLGT
MDT
HIGH
SVR
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Convective Outlook

VALID 06:00 UTC Mon 31 Jul 2017 - 05:59 UTC Tue 01 Aug 2017

ISSUED 14:58 UTC Sun 30 Jul 2017

ISSUED BY: Dan

Closed upper low west of Scotland will begin to fill, with heights aloft slowly rising, and morphing into a broad positively-tilted longwave trough, stretching from west of Iberia to Scandinavia. The associated cool mid-levels atop relatively warm SSTs and diurnal heating inland will result in another day of scattered showers and a few thunderstorms, primarily focussed over Scotland and Northern Ireland where the best mid-level lapse rates will be found. Farther south, profiles exhibit more capping and hence any showers here will be more isolated and less likely to produce lightning given limited depth.


Hail up to 1.5cm in diameter will be possible with the strongest cells, along with some gusty winds. Slow-storm motion in N/NW Scotland increases the risk of localised surface water flooding, and here there is the chance of a few funnel clouds or a weak tornado.