Today we started new week with new participants from Lithuania, Poland, Germany, Austria, Croatia, USA and Netherlands. This week ESSL team is supported by Pieter Groenemeijer, Alois Holzer, Thilo Kuhne, Mateusz Taszarek, Georg Pistotnik, Helge Tuschy and Magdalena Pichler. John Hart from Storm Prediction Center (USA) is our expert guest.

Monday’s presentation about flash flooding threat was conducted by ESTOFEX forecaster Helge Tuschy. Helge shown that different convective setups can be responsible for excessive precipitation and forecasters should be able to apply various approaches in their forecasting.