Convective Outlook: Wed 19 Aug 2020 |
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Convective Outlook
VALID 06:00 UTC Wed 19 Aug 2020 - 05:59 UTC Thu 20 Aug 2020
ISSUED 08:04 UTC Wed 19 Aug 2020
br> br>ISSUED BY: Dan
Frontal rain will spill gradually northwards on Wednesday associated with a warm front, and introducing a high Theta-W airmass across many parts of Britain and Ireland. The steep Theta-E gradient on the leading edge of this warm, moist airmass may be subject to some isentropic upglide, and hence there is the chance of some embedded elevated convection within the frontal rain and a few isolated lightning strikes, more especially during the morning with a gradual weakening trend expected during the afternoon.
During the evening, a sharp upper trough will swing northwards towards southern Ireland and SW England, while a second tongue of high Theta-W advects northwards - the extent to which these two features engage is a little uncertain, but could provide the focus for some heavy convective rainfall that migrates north across Britain and Ireland through the evening and night hours. Strong PVA and divergence aloft will result in a rapidly-deepening surface low approaching southern Ireland during the late evening, and this may be the focus for some strongly-forced convection close to the wrap-around occlusion, followed by squally showers at the end of the night. Some uncertainty as to the extent of lightning (if any) but have tentatively introduced a low-end SLGT into S / SW Ireland.