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Press releases and Interviews
The IJMet were lucky enough to be invited to interview
Dave Britton and Pam Dickinson of the Met Office on their new website
accelerator program, Akamai. Read the press release and interview here.
The ECSS
this year to be held in Landschut, Germany is set to be another
fantastic conference on severe storms. The Editor along with a number of
TORRO colleagues will be attending the conference with two papers being
presented - one on severe weather forecasts and one still to be
confirmed.
The Journal's team is investigating
possible ways of getting IJMet online, as a non-profit organisation this
is difficult but as soon as we find the best way, we'll let you know. We
want every subscriber to have the best online experience. Watch this
space. A press release will be issued on this subject when decided.
*LIMITED COPIES LEFT*
Don't forget to order your Greensburg Tornado Special
- this full colour special issue contains dramatic images of this
horrific event along with informative and insightful papers about what
happened on 4 May 2007 and the harrowing stories from those first on the
scene.
Readers' comments on The Greensburg special have been
absolutely excellent already:
"I have just finished reading the May issue of the I.
J. Met., and want to congratulate you for this outstanding special
issue. You have made a great editorial work, and also a very
important scientific paper with the meteorological study of the
Greensburg tornado. I will keep this volume apart in my tornado
files."
"First of all, many congratulations on the superb
Special issue on The Greensburg Tornado, with its terrific
photographs, and that marvellously full article on the "Super
Tuesday" Tornado Outbreak of February, 2006 by Matthew Clark, so
soon after the event; you left [other weather periodicals] far
behind!"
"Just
a brief note to congratulate the team on an excellent edition, in
particular the article from Sam Hall. I found the explanation of the
various parameters involved in the forecasting of tornadic
supercells to be well-presented and has certainly helped in my own
understanding of the complex dynamics.
Well
done"
"The Greensburg issue was excellent. Congratulations
to all involved with that one.... "
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Special Issues Coming Soon!
"Britain Flooded" - Did you have first hand
experience of the terrible flooding of 2007? If so, get in touch and
send us your articles and photos.
"The London Tornado" - we are looking for
articles/pictures on this event that occurred in London, UK on 7
December 2006. Please email in your accounts/papers and photos.
Look out for further details of these important special
issues and ways to order further promotional/collector's copies.
Special issues are important for documenting and
explaining why such severe weather events occur, not just for further
research but for members of the public to help understanding and provide
vital information to aid survival and preparedness for the future. The
IJMet continues to be the most prestigious severe weather devoted
Journal of its kind bringing support, education and research to
absolutely everyone.
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2009 Photo Competition
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Current issue: March 2009, (Dispatched); Next expected issue:
April/May 2009
(coming soon) EDP 20/05/09
(Expected Date of Publication (EDP) is
subject to change)
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Latest issues
Volume 34,
Number 339, June/July 2009 (coming soon) (EDP: 15/07/09)
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This issue is jam-packed - a TORRO site investigation carried out by one
of our many volunteers in March this year is presented. Co-written by
another fellow TORRO member, this is the first site investigation to be
published for many years, and hopefully is the first of many to come and
many older archived ones that need documenting. This is an integral part
of TORRO's research and helps verify forecasting and further study. If
you have done an investigation into a severe weather event anywhere in
the world, please send us your report to be published. This particular
event occurred on 26 March 2009 in Suffolk, UK. We also have METPIX in
the poster section of a stunning photo from the Great Plains in 2008,
our usual whirlwind and thunder reports and our lead science paper this
month is about rainfall variability in Anantapur district in India and
one paper that is not to be missed by Dr G. Terence Meaden and
Chris Chatfield on tornadoes in Birmingham during
1931 and 1946 to 2005.
Volume 34,
Number 338, April/May 2009 (printed) (EDP: 01/05/09)
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Now
This month we
have a paper on the performance on General Circulation Models over North
Africa, a very interesting article on thunderstorms and their connection
with synoptic activity over Poland, another Weather and Me
article by TORRO's webmaster, Martin Collins, the usual TORRO whirlwind
reports for the UK as usual. This issue also sees some important
announcements and also includes the Akamai press release.
Volume 34,
Number 337, March 2009 (Out Now!)
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For the third
issue of the year we see the concluding part to Dr Rick Wild's global
snow report along with the second part of the very interesting
data-filled paper on British Rainfall extremes. Also in this issue we
see the first of our new tutorial section. This month Matt Clark
discusses Convective Available Potential Energy - what it is, how it's
calculated and what it means for the atmosphere and severe weather. We
also have our annual report from Durham's weather station by Prof Burt
and of course some more stunning photographs.
Volume 34,
Number 336, February 2009 (Out Now!)
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The lead
scientific paper this month discusses statistical forecasts and their
technique during monsoon seasons in India,a report on tornadoes and
funnel clouds observed over Poland during 2006, the first part of an
extensive paper on British daily rainfall extremes - not to be missed.
In addition the first part of annual snowfall and blizzards by Dr Rick
Wild is presented. We also have a special letter from Dr Jean Dessens on
the devastating T8 tornado that struck Hautmont in France last year.
Volume 34,
Number 335, January 2009
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Starting off
the brand new year with new features, more popular interest articles and
more education and research for all levels of interest we have a world
snowfall and blizzard report from 2006 by Dr Richard Wild, our usual
TORRO reports including Jan-May 2008 whirlwind report and our usual
Thunder report and an excellently passionate article by TORRO's Mark
humpage on his love for extreme weather and storm chasing in our new
feature Weather and Me. We also have our lead paper which is the
international science paper from Prof. Rehman on an analysis of Saudi
climatic parameters. Lots of new interest, announcements in the
editorial and as usual absolutely stunning photographs. Don't miss
volume 34.
Click here for Volume 33
(2008)
We only have limited numbers left of our special issue
from 2008 on the most devastating tornado to hit Kansas, USA during that
year - The Greensburg Tornado so order your copy today to not miss it.
Weather Myths/Lore In
this new section we discuss weather lore or myths - do you have
a myth you want us to research and find out if it is true?
Contact us with your weather lore!
Red Sky at Night,
Shepherds'/Sailors' Delight. Red Sky in the Morning,
Shepherds'/Sailors' Warning. Ever wondered where that saying
came from?
Even thousands of years ago,
man was attempting to forecast the weather and they'd use
observations to help decide when to plant crops or sail out into
the wide open seas.
When we see red sky in the
morning, this can mean that there is a high water content in the
atmosphere and as the sun rises in the east, the red colour
appears in the sky meaning that there is rain on the way.
Whereas, red sky at night denotes stable air and high pressure,
which generally means fair weather.
Some know the saying as
'shepherds' and others know it as 'sailors' this is because both
used the saying and forecast technique for their jobs. Shepherds
used it to identify when it was safe to plant crops and sailors
used it to work out when best to go out to sea.
Is it true, does it work? Try
it.
Ever feel like it purposefully
rains on Bank Holiday Monday? IJMet researchers are currently
looking back to these days to see just how many rainy Bank
Holidays we have had, and how many have been sunny. Is it just
that we're off work and notice the weather, or does it
purposefully rain on our parade to stop people getting in the
garden, or having a game of golf? What do you think? Send us
your weather mythical articles/letters!
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