This week the synoptic setup is not supportive for large outbreaks of severe convective weather. But on a very local scale nevertheless severe events can happen. This Testbed week therefore triggers many fruitful discussions about local effects like orographically enhanced lift, the influence of seabreeze fronts or the cell-relative motion of mesoscale boundaries and flows. And at the end these effects are important for a successful forecast of local severe convective storms.

Today’s “day 2 forecast” group