Tarmo Tanilsoo
EF5
I am still amazed about the weather events what happened today. I went to school in Tartu, Estonia this morning and it started raining. It rained occasionally all day when things started to go totally wrong. I noticed that cumulus clouds are suspicious, but I was unable to see whether they are towering or not. Just before 4 PM Estonian time, Father was driving to parking lot(after school I was still in the city, because there was an astronomy lecture in Tartu Old Observatory today at 5:30 PM) at Tartu Kaubamaja. Tartu Kaubamaja(Tartu Shopping Center) is located at Riia street, parking lot is at neighboring street. While we started to head there, it started hailing. Then there was a pause and when we approached to the parking lot, it started again. We finally made it there just to get hail with diameter of 0,2 inches. It ended within 10 minutes. Later I also noticed possible cumulonimbus clouds and also a lot of cumulus congestus clouds. Actually, cumulus congestuses are visible right now too, 50 minutes after sunset. I am completely amazed about this. I was no way able to expect this. By now, air temperature has dropped below freezing point.
If you want to see weather data from that time, then EMHI provides detailed weather data over here.
One user of Estonian weather forum has also reported hail(he was in Tartu either). Another one was in Tartu as well, missed hail, but saw some nice cumulus clouds on Tallinn-Tartu highway.
If you want to see weather data from that time, then EMHI provides detailed weather data over here.
One user of Estonian weather forum has also reported hail(he was in Tartu either). Another one was in Tartu as well, missed hail, but saw some nice cumulus clouds on Tallinn-Tartu highway.
