I see has Harold Brooks has imported some of the Oklahoma atmosphere into
Italy
Udine-
http://weather.uwyo.edu/cgi-bin/soun...812&STNM=11120
and an impressive sounding from Innsbruck-
http://weather.uwyo.edu/cgi-bin/soun...812&STNM=16044



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David

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Waghorn wrote:
I see has Harold Brooks has imported some of the Oklahoma atmosphere into
Italy
Udine-
http://weather.uwyo.edu/cgi-bin/soun...812&STNM=11120
and an impressive sounding from Innsbruck-
http://weather.uwyo.edu/cgi-bin/soun...812&STNM=16044

The Milan soundings are equally as impressive:

http://62.202.7.134/img/skewt_16080.gif

with Estofex going for mdt risk:

http://estofex.met.fu-berlin.de/cgi-bin/outlooks.cgi

supercells, anyone??

Les
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Les Crossan,
Wallsend, Tyne & Wear
54.95N 1.5W
Home of the Wallsend StormCam and the Backup USW FAQ -
www.uksevereweather.org.uk

In article ,
says...
I see has Harold Brooks has imported some of the Oklahoma atmosphere into
Italy
Udine-
http://weather.uwyo.edu/cgi-bin/soun...812&STNM=11120
and an impressive sounding from Innsbruck-
http://weather.uwyo.edu/cgi-bin/soun...812&STNM=16044





It was an interesting week in Udine. It felt like an "interesting"
lifetime getting there. 11 hours late, 6 hours hanging around the North
Terminal departure lounge in Gatwick. But, back to the weather--

We had three big convective events in the area while I was there. We
had thunder early AM on the 18th and there was wind damage about 6 AM in
Gorizia, about 1 km from where one of the forecasters from the Friuli-
Venezia Giulia office lives. Apparently, there was also damage in
Trieste that morning.

On Thursday, the 21st, the Alps lit up early afternoon. I finished my
last lecture about 3:30 PM and, during the next lecture, we started
hearing thunder. I went outside to take a look and we had a pretty good
core on a storm to our north, moving SE. Paul Markowski (from Penn
State) and his wife (also a meteorologist), and their 4-month old child
and I were standing around watching the storm while the students in the
workshop stayed inside. After a few minutes, Paul and I both started
thinking there was a broad region of slow anticyclonic rotation at cloud
base on the back side of the storm. It was high-based and we didn't
expect anything really interesting, bu it slowed to a halt. After
another minute or so, a tight little area of cyclonic rotation developed
overhead in a "cinnamon swirl" configuration. It lasted for a few
minutes, giving me time to run back to my room and get the camera.
After I took a couple of shots, we got the class out and we stood out on
Piazza Garibaldi watching the storm drift off east with slower, broader
cyclonic rotation.

That storm ending up forming part of a line with a few others and
heading off southeast, where it caused damage in the Cormons area that
received little media attention, given the isolated area, but the
forecaster who lives near there (not the Gorizia one) thought that the
meteorological aspect was as strong as the 18th. On radar, it also
looked like there was a supercell in western Croatia, but I've got no
information on what happened.

About 6-7 PM, a second round of convection started in the Alps. It put
on an impressive lightning display (photographic efforts resulted in a
large number of Udine skyline pictures) and finally approached the town.
About 8 PM, I went with a group of the class to Ristorante al Gelso on
Via del Gelso and we sat under the awning "outside." (I think it helps
them get around no smoking regulations.) It started raining and then it
started raining really hard. The awning had some structural flaws and
we ended up with several items on the table to catch water. If I leaned
back at all at the table, I got dripped on, so I had to have posture
that would make my mother proud during dinner. The rain let up while we
were eating, but intensified about 10 PM. Some of our group had failed
to come prepared for rain and, as a result, we waited until 11:15 to
leave. The radar estimate was of more than 40 mm during the few hours.

Friday evening, we had a repeat of the Alpine initiation. We stumbled
onto a concert of Cuban music at the Udine castle and, after the
concert, watched the storms approach from the northwest. I took about
100 1+ second exposures and got lightning flashed in about 7. Not
particularly high quality photography, given no proper tripod and an
effort to rig one from a candy tin and the castle wall, but that's OK
for now. We waited a few minutes too long to begin the journey back
and, although we got to one of our group's hotel, the rest of us ended
up in a cab. It rained and thundered until about 1 AM.

I've put up a few of the pictures on the web

Swirl

http://www.nssl.noaa.gov/~brooks/udine/Swirl1.jpg
http://www.nssl.noaa.gov/~brooks/udine/Swirl2.jpg

Storm moving over Giuseppe Garibaldi's head--

http://www.nssl.noaa.gov/~brooks/udine/Garibaldi.jpg

Water pouring in the restaurant (should have used a longer exposure, but
you can make out individual drops)

http://www.nssl.noaa.gov/~brooks/udine/IndoorRain.jpg

Lightning

http://www.nssl.noaa.gov/~brooks/udi...htning5501.jpg
http://www.nssl.noaa.gov/~brooks/udi...htning6001.jpg



Harold
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Harold Brooks
hebrooks87 hotmail.com