Severe storms and excessive rainfall over the Alpine region on Sunday, Aug 6th 2017
While south, central and eastern Europe is still in a record-breaking heat wave and ridging pattern, models are in good agreement for gradually weakening ridging …
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Peak of heat wave & likely record breaking heat today – Friday, August 4th, 2017
Update on the current intense heat wave which is expected to peak today, in particular across the Mediterranean, parts of central Europe and the Balkan …
Follow up on the heat wave – Thursday, August 3rd, 2017
Follow up on the current intense heat wave across the Mediterranean, parts of central Europe and the Balkan peninsula. Today, another extremely hot day is …
Follow up on the heat wave – Wednesday, August 2nd, 2017
The strong blocking pattern over the eastern half of Europe as well as most of the Mediterranean remains in place and the heat wave still …
Follow up on the heat wave – Tuesday, August 1st, 2017
The strong blocking pattern over the eastern half of Europe remains in place and the heat wave continues intensifying and spreading from SSW in to …
Follow up on the heat wave – Monday July 31st, 2017
A blocking pattern dominates eastern half of Europe where an intensifying heat wave was spreading from SSW into central Europe past weekend. Yesterday’s max afternoon …
Severe weather outbreak across E France into central Germany and W Poland
Europe is dominated by two prominent features this week, a large almost stationary upper trough over W Europe and a strong upper ridge with an …
Severe hailstorms over northwestern Italy – July 29, 2017
Severe thunderstorms again hit NW Italy yesterday (Piemonte, Lombardy and Emilia Romagna), as a shortwave passed across the region, producing widespread torrential rainfall and severe …