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Using cloud microphysics to predict thunderstorms: How modelling of atmospheric electricity could save lives

February 14, 2021
Using cloud microphysics to predict thunderstorms: How modelling of atmospheric electricity could save lives
A lightning strike: Will cloud microphysics help us predicting these? Image credit: Mike Lehmann, CC BY-SA 3.0 , via Wikimedia Commons

The last three decades were the warmest in the history of meteorological observations in Europe. Temperature rise is accompanied by an increase in the frequency and magnitude of extreme weather and climatic events, which are the main risks for population and environment associated with modern climate change. An important class of such phenomena includes severe rainfall, tornadoes, squalls, and thu ...[Read More]

What? Ice lollies falling from the sky?

June 2, 2017
What? Ice lollies falling from the sky?
Lolly in the sky. [Credit: Darwin Bell via flickr]

You have more than probably eaten many lollipops as a kid (and you might still enjoy them. The good thing is that you do not necessarily need to go to the candy shop to get them but you can simply wait for them to fall from the sky and eat them for free. Disclaimer: this kind of lollies might be slightly different from what you expect… Are lollies really falling from the sky? Eight years ago ...[Read More]