Department of Meteorology, University of Reading





Widespread showers and thunderstorms across the southern UK associated with a low over the Irish Sea moving eastward. Storms peak at 10km with heavy rainfall throughout the day and thunder and lightning from about 2pm.

See the UKV forecasts starting with the 3Z forecast from the previous day and ending with the 15Z forecast on the current day.

See the 3Z forecasts from the UKV-4km-NAE runs.

See the Chilbolton scans (radar reflectivity, radial velocity, Nimrod rainfall).

See the 3D Volumes (5Z and 20Z isosurfaces from merged Chilbolton PPI scans).

See the Vertical velocities (Derived from sets of four Chilbolton RHI scans following Hogan et al. 2008). And Quantile Reflectivity Profiles for different surface reflectivity ranges (model and obs).

Tephigrams produced by http://meteocentre.com/.
Red curve: Temperature.
Solid Blue curve: Wet-bulb temperature.
Dashed Blue curve: Dewpoint temperature.
Dashed Magenta curve: trajectory of parcel associated with the CAPE.
Beige curve: US Standard Atmosphere.