Today’s expert lecture was given by Abdullah Kahraman from Samsun University in Turkey on the topic of severe storms climatology: extremely large hail for example has been observed several times in Turkey.

Abdullah Kahraman at the ESSL Testbed on severe storms climatology for Turkey

During lunch Testbed participants could see how well the COSMO-2 was able to predict the local initiation of storms in this case. At the end we had to rush back to the office because of approaching thunder.