During this week each participant has to present weather briefing of its own group for day1 and day2 forecasts. Yesterday this taks fell to Stefan and Dennis while today to Tomislav and Andreas. Briefings were very interesting and mostly focused on southern and south-eastern part of Europe where most of severe weather is expected to occur.

Tomislav and Andreas during weather briefing day1 and day2 forecast presentations

Stefan and Dennis during weather briefing day1 and day2 forecast presentations

Except weather briefing, also Wednesday’s forecasts and nowcasts were evaluated. It seems that most of the severe weather phenomena was reported in the belt from N Italy through Bosnia and Herzegovina. Serbia and parts of Romania. In Bulgaria and S Serbia convection did not initiate. Significant severe damage was associated with isolated supercells mentioned in previous blog entry. How our participants managed to predict this situation?

In the afternoon, one of our last ESSL Tesbed’s expert lectures was conducted by John Hart from Storm Prediction Center (USA). John gave a very interesting talk about forecasting supercell tornadoes and received quite a lot of questions after his presentation.

John Hart