Dear Stefano

Thanks for all the work answering each comment sent by the two reviewers.
I read both answering letters and I'm satisfied with the way and depth you have handle them. Naturally I'm taking into account that both reviewers suggest the acceptance of the manuscript after relatively minor revisions.

Therefore, I'm glad to grant conditional acceptance of the paper, as long as you provide now a revised version of the manuscript incorporating all the changes, as suggested in the answering revision letters.

I'm looking forward for the revised version of this manuscript

Best regards

Ricardo Trigo

Dear authors

Many thanks for the submission of your revised manuscript where you’ve introduced all the changes in accordance to the answers provided before to both reviewers.
I’m happy to accept the paper. I only ask you to provide some technical improvements (or clarifications) in the figures as detailed below:


Figure 3 caption:
1) Please clarify the meaning of the bold contour line around northern Italy. If it is used it needs some clarification here. If it is not used just remove it.
2) The use of many small boxes to identify the High and Low local maxima and minima o Geop500 and SLP is not useful (very difficult to read being superimposed on the other information) and not very useful. Consider removing or just leaving very few that can be read easily.

Figure 5:
Please provide the latitude and longitude values as in Fig.3
Please check the compatibility of the color bar and the colors shown in figure 5b. I see a mismatch as you have 3 different tones of yellow-orange in the figure (before the green values) and only 2 in the color bar.


I look forward to see these final technical revisions done.

Best regards,

Ricardo Trigo