European Heatwave Late July 2013

Simon Culling · Unread post by **Simon Culling** » Mon 29/07/2013 01:33

The heat we have been experiencing in the UK has spread further east with some very high temperatures expected in central Europe today before it all goes bang. Forecasts on Thursday (25th July) suggested a pool of 582Dm air over Austria by Sunday. Don't see that very often. The highest temperatures I could find for Saturday 27th July were (from UKww):

Germany, 38.1*C at Rheinstetton
France, 39.1*C at Carpentras (this is in southern France)
France, 38.2*C at Colmar (this is in northern France)
Switzerland, 37.1*C at Basel - Binningen
Austria, 36.8*C at Kufstein
Czech Republic, 37.2*C at Doksang

The synoptic chart for 0600GMT for Sunday 28th July shows a broad southerly flow over most of central and eastern Europe ahead of a north-south cold front stretching from N Germany to the France/Spain border and this is meandering eastwards into all that hot air.

I would not be surprised to see the odd 40*C temperature for today.

Simon Culling · Unread post by **Simon Culling** » Mon 29/07/2013 18:09

Slightly hotter on Sunday, with 39*C again reached. Monday should see 40*C breached in a number of places as the top temperatures will come from the Balkan countries. Highest temperatures for Sunday taken from UKww were:

39.2*C at Waidhofen, Austria
38.7*C at Doksany, Czech Republic
38.2*C at Gyor, Hungary

Storms have continued further west (there were some humdingers in France + Germany on Saturday), with the following video also copied from UKww. Watch the broken slates begin to fall off the roof as the hail gets bigger. This tape is from Lower Saxony, Germany:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hn_Te9ur ... e=youtu.be

jamie · Unread post by **jamie** » Mon 29/07/2013 18:17

Wow that's crazy that video. Never seen hail break the tiles like that.

Orion · Unread post by **Orion** » Mon 29/07/2013 18:58

Dear oh dear!
I bet they were glad it stopped when it did!

RODALCO · Unread post by **RODALCO** » Tue 30/07/2013 08:18

Amazing video

Attached is Blitzortung image

31000 lightning strikes / minute

Tornado Tim · Unread post by **Tornado Tim** » Tue 30/07/2013 12:05

RODALCO wrote:
31000 lightning strikes / minute

Thats an incorrect figure, its 31000 strikes per 2 hours not per min......

RODALCO · Unread post by **RODALCO** » Wed 31/07/2013 07:41

Thanks for clearing that up.

That lightning strike data is a bit vague as it climbs up and drops down dueing the 30 sec. or 1 minuterefresh rate of the page.

Simon Culling · Unread post by **Simon Culling** » Wed 31/07/2013 09:57

Highs on Monday 29th July include:

41.2*C at Banja Luka (Bosnia + Herzegovina)
40.0*C at Baja, Hungary
39.1*C at Gussing, Austria
38.8*C at both Graz-Strassgang + Leibnitz (both Austria)

NZstorm · Unread post by **NZstorm** » Wed 31/07/2013 20:49

Clip here of a tornado in Milan yesterday.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jm0Zfuj_9Kg

03Stormchaser · Unread post by **03Stormchaser** » Wed 31/07/2013 20:51

NZstorm wrote:Clip here of a tornado in Milan yesterday.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jm0Zfuj_9Kg

Some serious damage there!! What rating did it end up getting?

NZstorm · Unread post by **NZstorm** » Wed 31/07/2013 21:15

Looks like a possible F3.

A jet stream has been lingering over western Europe last few days but looks like it clears away now.

Richard · Unread post by **Richard** » Wed 31/07/2013 22:10

Gees a nasty tornado alright

Simon Culling · Unread post by **Simon Culling** » Thu 01/08/2013 11:11

Another couple of good videos of the Milan tornado:

http://www.theguardian.com/world/video/ ... nado-video

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

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