The ESSL week number three just began! In opposition to previous week, we have only male participants from Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Latvia. Our special guest Roger Edwards came to us from USA (Storm Prediction Center). Also our experts responsible for nowcasting and NWP products from DWD are onboard: Thomas Hengstebeck and Paul James.

Opening session for the participants.

Good mood during the opening session did not leave the participants 😉

This week also our ESWD expert Thilo Kuhne joined us to support us in the forecasting verification.

Thilo Kuhne during his work on collecting severe weather reports.

Forecasters today prepared few forecasts for the following days, we present them below:

Weather briefings were presented by Roger Edwards and Lionel Peyraud while the expect lecture was given by Jacques Ambuhl in the ESSL research and training center.

Roger Edwards (SPC)

Lionel Peyraud (MeteoSwiss)

Jacques Ambuhl (MeteoSwiss)

… and some pictures from the forecasting activities 😉