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There has been already discussions about the question of this density:
Is it per hour or per day?
https://community.windy.com/topic/3361/description-of-weather-overlays/28
The thunderstorm layer is expressed in lightning per square kilometre. It is the average density of likely lightning strikes computed on a wide area but then expressed per square km. So it is not within a radius to your location, just a potential density.
To clarify these 2 questions, see more detail from ECMWF about this parameter:
https://apps.ecmwf.int/codes/grib/param-db/?id=228057
Finally I understand that ECMWF compute the potential of lightning strikes density during 24hours but they are displayed at a precise hourly time frame. It is about the same when you are driving, your speed is expressed in km per hour (or miles per hour), but your speed may vary by each minutes.
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<p dir="auto">Si rimarca che l'arancione è il livello più alto di rischio per temporali. Nella giornata di sabato si sono registrate precipitazioni anche molto forti specie su imperiese e savonese ed attualmente sono ancora segnalate piogge intense su entroterra savonese , genovesato di ponente e basso alessandrino.</p>
<p dir="auto">Le precipitazioni hanno alimentato i corsi d'acqua ed attualmente nonostante i rilevanti accumuli pluviometrici i livelli dei corsi d'acqua permangono al di sotto della soglia di piena.</p>
<p dir="auto">Attualmente si segnalano forti raffiche di vento da sud che stanno girando a scirocco in particolare forte intensità nelle raffiche sono segnalate sui crinali appenninici.</p>
<p dir="auto">Dalla mappa osservativa di Limet per le registrazione delle centraline idrometriche si nota accumuli significativi nelle zone comprese tra savonese occidentale e tigullio. Si registano nuovamente anche accumuli superiori ai 100 mm su Cadibona ed Urbe(SV), Masone/Voltri Fabbriche (GE) e sul Levante Moconesi con quasi 150mm.</p>
<p dir="auto">Cosa ci si deve aspettare in questa lunga fase ancora prevista di maltempo: nella notte e per la mattinata di domenica precipitazioni diffuse ed intense sui settori interni centrali e di ponente ligure e piogge. Sulla costa piogge costanti ed insistenti su centro ponente.</p>
<p dir="auto">Dal pomeriggio costante peggioramento ed in tensificazione dei fenomeni con maggior coinvolgimento dell'area compresa tra Savonese e Genovesato con probabile fenomenologia temporalesca annessa: possibile criticità associata ai bacini idrici della zona.</p>
<p dir="auto">La fase di maltempo continuerà anche in fase acuta nella giornata di lunedì specie nella mattinata con accumulate che nelle prossime 24 ore potranno raggiungere valori superiori ai 200mm: domani i modelli potranno essere di grande supporto per una proiezione dell'andamento successivo: seguite i prossimi bollettini e in caso di emergenza adottare le misure di autoprotezione al fine di prevenire o limitare i danni derivanti dai diversi rischi.</p>
<p dir="auto">immagini: Accumuli pluviometrici da mappa osservativa Limet, immagini Eumetsat attuale con temperatura, accumulate previsionali modello ECMWF prossime 24 ore, situazione pressoria ed analisi possibili formazioni temporalesche pomeriggio 20, possibili forti temporali per la serata del 20.</p>
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<p dir="auto"><em>Leonardo Ronzitti</em></p>
<p dir="auto"><em>Appassionato di meteorologia estrema</em></p>
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<strong>Issued</strong>: Mon 29 Jul 2019 22:40<br />
<strong>Forecaster</strong>: DAFIS</em></p>
<p dir="auto">A level 1 was issued for <strong>UK</strong> and <strong>N France</strong> mainly for severe convective <a href="https://www.windy.com/articles/weather-phenomena-what-s-the-difference-between-sustained-winds-and-wind-gusts-10390" rel="nofollow ugc">wind gusts</a>, excessive precipitation, and tornadoes.</p>
<p dir="auto">A level 1 was issued for <strong>Germany</strong>, <strong>Switzerland</strong>, <strong>Austria</strong>, and <strong>N Italy</strong> mainly for severe convective <a href="https://www.windy.com/articles/weather-phenomena-what-s-the-difference-between-sustained-winds-and-wind-gusts-10390" rel="nofollow ugc">wind gusts</a> and excessive precipitation.</p>
<p dir="auto">A level 1 was issued for <strong>Poland</strong>, <strong>Czech Republic</strong>, <strong>Slovakia</strong>, <strong>NE Hungary</strong>, <strong>N Romania</strong>, <strong>SW Belarus</strong> and <strong>Ukraine</strong> for excessive precipitation, large hail and severe <a href="https://www.windy.com/articles/weather-phenomena-what-s-the-difference-between-sustained-winds-and-wind-gusts-10390" rel="nofollow ugc">wind gusts</a>.</p>
<p dir="auto">A level 1 was issued for mountainous parts of <strong>Georgia</strong> and <strong>SW Russia</strong> mainly for large hail.</p>
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<h3>SYNOPSIS</h3>
<p dir="auto">A deep low enters the English Channel (995 hPa at 21z, 29/07) bringing gale-force <a href="https://www.windy.com/articles/weather-phenomena-what-s-the-difference-between-sustained-winds-and-wind-gusts-10390" rel="nofollow ugc">wind gusts</a> to UK and France. The strong ridge which brought unseasonably warm air masses up north to the Arctic is gradually breaking over the North Sea in the presence of two troughs. An embedded short-wave trough over Scandinavia will cross the Baltic States and Eastern Europe enhancing the upper-level wind field by producing a jet stream which will overlap with unstable air masses below. A large part of Europe will experience either diurnally driven storms or forced by strong PVA. Some rare active storms will reach the SE coast of Iceland in the early morning of Tuesday 30/07.</p>
<h2>DISCUSSION</h2>
<h3>UK and France</h3>
<p dir="auto">The deep cyclone entering the English Channel is expected to shift NE crossing UK on Tuesday 30/07. Non-convective gale-force wind speeds will be the main threat but numerical models also show a high probability for storms which will also be able to produce severe <a href="https://www.windy.com/articles/weather-phenomena-what-s-the-difference-between-sustained-winds-and-wind-gusts-10390" rel="nofollow ugc">wind gusts</a>. Complex vertical wind profiles in the UK create low confidence for well-organized convection, but storms may produce short-lived tornadoes given the strong low-level shear.</p>
<h3>Germany, Switzerland, Austria, and N Italy</h3>
<p dir="auto">In the Alps, storms will form early in the afternoon of Tuesday 30/07 and flash floods are possible. Strong synoptic lift late in the afternoon and night will result in DMC events and even though CAPE is calculated to stay below 1000 J/kg, the increasing wind speeds in mid/upper troposphere will result in the tilting of storms and storm-organization in multi-cells. Excessive precipitation will be the main threat, especially in Germany.</p>
<h3>Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, NE Hungary, N Romania, SW Belarus, and Ukraine</h3>
<p dir="auto">A wide area with warm air masses, rich in moisture (Tds 18-20oC), is found in Eastern Europe, under the heart of the weakening ridge. A cold front is approaching from Russia and the Baltic States, and the boundary is expected to receive the most intense thunderstorms. NWP models show widespread CAPE values of 1000-2000 J/kg and locally enhanced DLS exceeding 10-15 m/s. The main threat will be excessive precipitation given more the 30-35 mm PWAT and slow storm motion vectors, but in South Poland and the Czech Republic more steep lapse rates increase also the probability of large hail.</p>
<h3>Georgia and SW Russia</h3>
<p dir="auto">The jet stream extending from Greece towards the Caucasus will lead to strong DLS locally exceeding 25 m/s. Storms are expected to fire up in the mountains given the low-level cap elsewhere and the absence of synoptic lift. Storms will be able to produce large hail.</p>
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