How to follow storms?

From GHER

This page provides a few links to follow thunderstorms.

• the European Storm Forecast Experiment (ESTOFEX) provides forecast of storm probability over Europe on a daily basis, along with a description and a discussion of the main atmospheric features responsible for the storms: http://www.estofex.org/

• the European Cooperation for Lightning Detection (EUCLIDE) produces maps of lightning over Europe for the last 2 hours, with 1 hour of delay: http://www.euclid.org/realtime.html

A global coverage of the Earth is available at http://wwlln.net/TOGA_network_global_maps.htm

• Visible and infrared images allows identifying the areas with cumuliform clouds development: http://www.sat24.com/fr/eu

• Sounding provides a view of the vertical structure of the atmosphere: http://weather.uwyo.edu/upperair/sounding.html

The derived parameters (CAPE , Lifted Index) can be to predict the storm intensity.

• Radars measure precipitations and also allows the detection of storms: http://www.meteox.com

• Turotial and tips for lightning pictures:
  • http://stormhighway.com/ptips.shtml
  • http://www.thephotoargus.com/tutorials/lightning-photography-a-primer/
  • http://nickulivieriphotography.com/blog/lightning/