{"id":3109,"date":"2018-05-04T13:17:46","date_gmt":"2018-05-04T11:17:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.essl.org\/cms\/?p=3109"},"modified":"2018-05-04T13:21:15","modified_gmt":"2018-05-04T11:21:15","slug":"the-severe-convective-weather-season-of-2018-has-started","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.essl.org\/cms\/the-severe-convective-weather-season-of-2018-has-started\/","title":{"rendered":"The severe convective weather season of 2018 has started"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"js_3q\" class=\"_5pbx userContent _3576\" data-ft=\"{&quot;tn&quot;:&quot;K&quot;}\">\n<div id=\"id_5aec3fd936d608b71154130\" class=\"text_exposed_root text_exposed\">\n<p>During recent days, pronounced severe convective storm activity has occurred across Europe, reports of which have been collected into the ESWD with help of ESSL&#8217;s partners. In total, we have received over 360 reports in the past 7 days. A majority of them were of large hail (184 reports), followed by severe wind gusts (79 reports) and heavy rainfall (66 reports). The first notable event was 29th April, where a tornadic supercell tracked more than 500 km from central France to Belgium. Wind damage c<span class=\"text_exposed_show\">aused by this supercell is still being investigated to confirm possible occurrence of several tornadoes along its path. On 1 May, a long-lived supercell over eastern Poland produced a hail swath 300 km long with hail up to 5 cm in diameter. And one day later, series of severe storms struck Croatia, Slovenia, Hungary and Austria. Hail up to 6 cm in diameter was observed over northeastern Slovenia, damaging houses and numerous flash floods were reported from Vienna, where storms persisted for several hours.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"_3x-2\" data-ft=\"{&quot;tn&quot;:&quot;H&quot;}\">\n<div data-ft=\"{&quot;tn&quot;:&quot;H&quot;}\">\n<div class=\"mtm\">\n<div class=\"_5cq3\" data-ft=\"{&quot;tn&quot;:&quot;E&quot;}\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.essl.org\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/31841586_2157686654257870_4649455956533444608_o.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3111\" src=\"https:\/\/www.essl.org\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/31841586_2157686654257870_4649455956533444608_o.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1494\" height=\"654\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.essl.org\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/31841586_2157686654257870_4649455956533444608_o.png 1494w, https:\/\/www.essl.org\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/31841586_2157686654257870_4649455956533444608_o-300x131.png 300w, https:\/\/www.essl.org\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/31841586_2157686654257870_4649455956533444608_o-768x336.png 768w, https:\/\/www.essl.org\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/31841586_2157686654257870_4649455956533444608_o-1024x448.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.essl.org\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/31841586_2157686654257870_4649455956533444608_o-500x219.png 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1494px) 100vw, 1494px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During recent days, pronounced severe convective storm activity has occurred across Europe, reports of which have been collected into the ESWD with help of ESSL&#8217;s partners. In total, we have received over 360 reports in the past 7 days. A &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.essl.org\/cms\/the-severe-convective-weather-season-of-2018-has-started\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.essl.org\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.essl.org\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.essl.org\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.essl.org\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.essl.org\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3109"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.essl.org\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3112,"href":"https:\/\/www.essl.org\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3109\/revisions\/3112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.essl.org\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.essl.org\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.essl.org\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}