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There is a great demand to improve predictions of high‐impact weather across the African continent. This is because of the high frequency of intense convective storms that often produce severe flooding, strong winds and lightning, combined with the vulnerability of people, infrastructure and businesses to such hazards. The skill of numerical weather prediction over Africa is still low, even for lead...
We describe an entry in a twelfth century monastic chronicle, compiled and composed by Gervase of Canterbury (c. 1145–c. 1210), which gives a credible description of ball lightning. It predates the earliest known report of the phenomenon from England by nearly 450 years. The meteorological descriptions in Gervase's 1195 report are examined in the context of the purpose of the chronicle and we compare...
Graphical abstract(a) Full map of China including the location of Tianjin; (b) the terrain height (m) of Tianjin with the urban boundary (red line); (c) photograph of Tianjin city.
Missing or erroneous station metadata are often a source of error in determining the reference level for the reported station pressure in conventional land‐based weather reports: the reported pressure may be inconsistent with any reported mean‐sea‐level pressure, limiting the usefulness of the data for climate or operational forecasting work. Historical Irish observations are used to highlight the...
Locations of the 864 Automated Surface Observing System (ASOS) anemometers in the contiguous USA were found from Google Earth images and assigned the WMO class for local shelter. 352 (41%) locations are Class 1, requiring no correction and 308 (36%) are Class 2 and correctable by routine methods. The remainder classify as 3 to 5, requiring special methods or are un‐correctable. The WMO classification...
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