Late evening storms over SW France and N Spain in the testbed visualization of the RDT (rapid developping thunderstorm) product from EUMETSAT NWC-SAF and MeteoFrance:

 RDT product screenshot: growing cells with red borders, mature cells with magenta. Mouse-over function provides a selection of additional cell properties.

Here one of the new products from DWD to be tested this year:

The DWD COSMO DE EPS visualization of the “condensate in column below -10 degrees Celsius 1 hour track” shows interesting signals to be verified later today over Germany.

This first week of the ESSL Testbed was a very fruitful one, also because of the weather setups that we have experienced. The testbed will have a break of one week now and will be back on 19 June for additional 3 weeks.