Here are the current Papers & Articles under the research topic Thunderstorms. Click on the title of a paper you are interested in to go straight to the full paper.
In December 2024, myself (STV) and Manali Lukha (ITV) presented the Scottish Centre's Royal Meteorological Society (RMetSoc) talk about the challenges of television weather broadcasting.
How people get their weather information has changed enormously in recent years. This talk considered the decline of 'linear TV' but the rise of online, digital sources. It looks at broadcaster trust and online misinformation, and how local sources flourish in times of extreme weather, especially if it is
This chart - posted by the Met Office's Marco Petagna on X some weeks back - is worth keeping in the back pocket. Broad-brush impacts of each MJO phase:
Originally posted by @Blessed Weather
If you would like to learn the basics about the Madden-Julian Oscillation (MJO) the following Met Office explanation and video is a useful place to start:
What is the Madden-Julian Oscillation?
WWW.METOFFICE.GOV.UK
The Madden-Julian Oscillation is characterised by an eastward spread of large regions of enhanced and suppressed tropical rainfall, mainly observed over the Indian and Pacific Ocean.
If you would like to better understand the basics about teleconnections, here's an informative blog posted on the NOAA/Climate website:
What are teleconnections? Connecting Earth's climate patterns via global information superhighways
When looking at the forecast on your favorite weather app, it may be hard to imagine that forecast could be connected to atmospheric and ocean conditions all the way across the globe. Fortunately for us, these connections can allow us to make predictions wee
If you would like to learn the basics about NWP Ensembles then fast forward through to around half way through this special Met Office Deep Dive YouTube video and their expert will explain what they are, how they are the used and give you a good understanding of how probabilities and clusters are used in forecasts:
The Met Office have also produced a separate video about ensembles here:
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