Today (Fri 26 July 2013), the last of the four Testbed weeks has ended. The current severe weather episode over France, the BeNeLux countries and Western Germany has made it a particularly exciting and intensive week, which is also the reason why there is no time for a longer blog entry today.

However, we promise to publish a wrap-up of the meteorological developments and our forecast activities for the high-impact severe weather situations that occur(red) yesterday (Thu 25 July 2013) and probably today (Fri 26 July 2013) and tomorrow (Sat 27 July 2013) as soon as possible, hopefully in the course of next week. As a teaser: the highest threat level 3 was issued for parts of France for today and tomorrow, meaning a greater than 15% chance of extremely severe weather (hail >5 cm, wind gusts >32 m/s and/or tornadoes rated F2 or stronger) within a radius of 40 km around a given point. Stay tuned!

Meanwhile, we thank all participants for four wonderful and productive weeks! We hope all of you enjoyed the time in Wiener Neustadt as much as we, the ESSL staff, did!