European Severe Storms Laboratory
The European Severe Storms Laboratory (ESSL) performs and supports research on severe convective storms, their prediction and their impacts, and provides training courses to researchers and forecasters. Our website: https://essl.org
- Is damaging hail getting worse? An ESSL-led study published in Nature Geoscience finds that very large hail is modelled to occur most frequently in South America, the United States, and South Africa, but Europe shows the strongest increase in very large hail frequency. doi.org/10.1038/s415...
- Reposted by European Severe Storms Laboratory⚒️ Article: The frequency of very large hail events increased most in Europe and decreased most in South America between 1950 and 2023 @essl-ecss.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- To submit your abstract for the upcoming European Conference on Severe Storms, visit: ecss.eu
- Do not forget the Abstract submission deadline of the upcoming European Conference on Severe Storms ⛈️🌪️⚡next Friday 6 June! We hope to welcome all researchers and forecasters with an interest in severe storms to Utrecht 🇳🇱 this November 🙂! Sponsored by @eumetsat.int @eumetsat-users.bsky.social.
- Reposted by European Severe Storms LaboratoryEuropean lightning deaths skew toward males (77.8%), teens, and SE Europe (especially Bulgaria), finds a #WeaClimateSoc study by researchers at @essl-ecss.bsky.social. Of 1,282 recorded lightning fatalities over 2001-2020, many were farm workers or hikers. Read more: bit.ly/4lJ2LUr
