Estofex heeft voor morgen toch best een lekkere verwachting:
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A confined pool of cooler mid-level air will be the main feature of interest while crossing N-France from the west towards the east. In general,the track and strength of such features are difficult to forecast due to the poor handling of the global forecast models, but apparently not in this case.
Replication of the latest IR / WV images and model forecasts show a surprisingly well accord regarding the position.
A swirl of locally cooler cloud tops roughly at 49N / 7W indicates this feature and models like GFS, NMM and MM5 all agree in track of this system, while showing slight differences in the propagation speed of this feature. It should reach Belgium during the latter part of the forecast period.
At lower levels, surface pressure should undergo a weak but constant decrease during the 24 hours and a mixture of a small LL depression and a N / SSE elongated low pressure channel is anticipated to evolve over eastern France and Belgium.
During the past few days, soundings of Belgium and the Netherlands showed an steadily vertical expanding and well mixed boundary layer with dewpoints approaching 20°C at the surface and 9°C at 850hPa. Yesterday's 12Z soundings indicated a deep pool of moist air currently present over those areas.
Strong diabatic heating should take place and temperatures in the level-1 area will reach around 25°C in the western half and around 30°C in the eastern half. Like yesterday, lapse rates are not impressive ( about 6°C between 500 and 700hPa ), but environment should be fine for 1000 - 2000 J/kg SBCAPE during the afternoon hours with MLCAPE values also approaching 1000 J/kg ( like De Bilt yesterday during the afternoon hours ).
During the day, thunderstorm initiation will start pretty early, as stable nocturnal layer will be mixed out and scattered to widespread thunderstorm development should take place from west toward the east. DLS will increase during the day and should reach 10-15m/s and will be enough for multicell storms with an isolated large hail and excessive heavy rain threat.
Low LCLs, eastward spreading mid-level vorticity and enhanced LL shear along outflow boundaries will also favor an isolated tornadic storm.
During the late afternoon, evening and night hours, a strong upper-level streak over N-central France will approach Belgium and nice divergence should spread northeastward. In addition, a frontal boundary will move eastwards and thunderstorms will increase in number.
Although there are no distinct hints in latest model outputs a line or a cluster of storms could easily develop , moving towards the NE / ENE.
This option was reflected in a quite far eastward expansion of the thunderstorm area.
Excessive rain and isolated large hail will be the main threat, but environment will still stay conducive for an isolated tornado report.
Nou hopen dat dat ook uitkomt, de camera gaat in ieder geval weer mee.