Yesterday between about 11.30am and 2.30pm, light showers were forming
over Shrops, Staffs and the West Midlands, before they faded away over
the East Midlands.

Were these showers formed by convergence of a sea breeze from the Irish
sea, coming over the Cheshire plain, and wind from mid-Wales?

Joe Egginton
Wolverhampton
175m ASL.

On Fri, 18 Oct 2013 11:17:10 +0100, Joe Egginton
wrote:
Were these showers formed by convergence of a sea breeze from the
Irish
sea, coming over the Cheshire plain, and wind from mid-Wales?

There was limited instability yesterday. Some of the showers came
from west of you (Irish Sea and Wales) and some formed in situ over
Shropshire via convection (temperatures reached 17 yesterday - about
13 was required to initiate convection). There wasn't any significant
convergence IMO looking at plots of surface winds.

I was anticipating showers, and they were mentioned in the forecast,
so they weren't unexpected to me.

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Freddie
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