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Recent European severe storms

Paul Knightley

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I thought I would flag up some recent events from Europe which may be of interest.

Our current pattern over here is very conducive to repeated bouts of severe weather across mainland Europe - that is, a broad SW'erly upper jet, with frequent short-waves moving through. This encourages the advection of the Spanish EML across France and into parts of Germany, the BeNeLux countries, and the Alps.

Although there's a lot to choose from, a couple of recent events are presented:

Firstly, a supercell near Le Havre, N France. This occurred on July 16 2009, and was associated with an eastward moving cold front, which had very warm/moist, and unstable air ahead.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBBAmlILEtw&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LPWdY8W6wk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qF5mvGCMjA8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ShPKjBywW8&feature=related

Secondly, several severe thunderstorms affected portions of the Alps on July 23, including Switzerland. See:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QdfwP10WaU&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKGTspFUB6s&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wz5pn5Gne7g

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tk_rsk8pnP0&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uag1VwCOe9w&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1jgJFY_-QA&feature=related



Whilst such severe storms are not rare in mainland Europe in the summer, this year has seen a fair amount, and with the jet pattern remaining similar for at least the next few days, further rounds are possible.
 
Some excellent hail video in the Alps section! This reminds me a lot of the barrages of hail that occur in the U.S. along the Front Range of the Rockies.

The supercell time lapse is very impressive, too. Looks like it gave it a good go toward the end of the time lapse, but couldn't quite pull off a tube.
 
I caught some good lightning last night in Sion, Switzerland

UXJs72.jpg


more pix in this slideshow here :
http://www.kyte.tv/ch/9038-klipsi/520364-lightning
 
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