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On 21 December 2019, a tornado hit several towns and villages in Surrey, UK. This article details the findings of a damage site investigation by the Tornado and Storm Research Organisation and discusses the synoptic and mesoscale settings of the event. The tornado lasted for approximately 13min, reached a strength of T3 on the International Tornado Intensity Scale, and produced a damage track of length...
WOW is a cloud‐based platform that allows members of the public to share observations with the world. WOW is being used to combine crowdsourced data with observations from the Met Office's official network of automatic surface stations to produce analyses for nowcasting.
On 1 July 2015, severe hailstorms developed over northern England. One storm tracked across an area with a dense network of privately owned (i.e. ‘home’) automatic weather stations (AWSs), permitting analysis of surface wind, pressure and temperature fields on the storm scale. The home AWS data were filtered and corrected by comparison with data from the nearest United Kingdom Met Office AWS, where...
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