Meri Virman, Mika Rantanen, Terhi K. Laurila, Antti Mäkelä, Daan van den Broek, Hilppa Gregow
Thunderstorms are common in Finland, however, high‐impact damaging cases do not occur every summer. On 21–23 June 2021, three damaging thunderstorms, named Ahti, Paula and Aatu, occurred in Finland. We provide an overview of the thunderstorms and their environment and impacts. The thunderstorms led to heavy rain, hail, intense lightning and, most notably, extensive forest damage due to strong surface wind gusts.
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Weather and climate have impacts across the energy sector. This short article introduces the effects of weather on the energy sector with some specific examples and looks ahead to changes that might be seen in weather and climate services for the energy sector in the near future.
{"title":"An introduction to weather, climate and the energy sector","authors":"Matthew Wright","doi":"10.1002/wea.4612","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/wea.4612","url":null,"abstract":"Weather and climate have impacts across the energy sector. This short article introduces the effects of weather on the energy sector with some specific examples and looks ahead to changes that might be seen in weather and climate services for the energy sector in the near future.","PeriodicalId":23637,"journal":{"name":"Weather","volume":"50 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2024-07-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141739439","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"May 2024. Rather dull and unsettled but warm, especially in the north","authors":"","doi":"10.1002/wea.4609","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/wea.4609","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":23637,"journal":{"name":"Weather","volume":"92 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2024-07-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141548513","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Large‐scale subsidence and associated adiabatic warming through compression allowed exceptionally mild air to reach western Scotland at low elevations on 28 January 2024. Marked foehn effects were then able to mix this air mass into the boundary layer across the Scottish Highlands, where an official observation from Achfary recorded a new UK January maximum temperature of 19.9°C. Observations and some numerical weather prediction data were used to assess the likely contributions of various foehn mechanisms to this event, with findings suggesting that mechanical mixing/turbulence most likely played the dominant role.
{"title":"Examining the factors behind the new UK January maximum temperature record, 28 January 2024","authors":"Nicholas Silkstone","doi":"10.1002/wea.4606","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/wea.4606","url":null,"abstract":"Large‐scale subsidence and associated adiabatic warming through compression allowed exceptionally mild air to reach western Scotland at low elevations on 28 January 2024. Marked foehn effects were then able to mix this air mass into the boundary layer across the Scottish Highlands, where an official observation from Achfary recorded a new UK January maximum temperature of 19.9°C. Observations and some numerical weather prediction data were used to assess the likely contributions of various foehn mechanisms to this event, with findings suggesting that mechanical mixing/turbulence most likely played the dominant role.","PeriodicalId":23637,"journal":{"name":"Weather","volume":"33 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2024-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141512802","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}