Today participants started to work very hard on their nowcasting and forecasting workshops. At the beginning of the day we divided into two teams, the one was working with Tomas Pucik on today’s forecast while the second one together with the support of Mateusz Taszarek created forecast for tomorrow (27th of May) for SE EU domain:

After the forecasts have been made, they were presented on the Saba teleconferencing session by Helge Tuschy and Tanja Renko:

Finally, just before the lunch break Susanne Theis (DWD) gave the lecture on COSMO-DE-EPS and ICON-EU numerical weather prediction models.

Susanne Theis (DWD)

Participants during the lecture

After the lunch break participants got back to their duties. First team started to work on the day 3-5 convective outlook while the second one faced the difficulty of nowcasting severe thunderstorms in the Ukraine, Belarus and Poland.

Forecast for 28th May

Forecast for 29th May

Forecast for 30th May

Tomas Pucik having a discussion with Helge Tuschy on nowcasting

In the end of the shift, thunderstorms over Poland and Ukraine evolved into nice MCS!

Sandwich satellite image + CAPE +6h GFS forecast + roaming sounding tool + surface observations at 1700 UTC. Please note the overshooting tops on the Ukraine-Poland border

Tomorrow we start our session at 0700 UTC with the verification of our nowcasts and forecasts.