Current weather

CURRENT WEATHER RESTARTED AFTER THE SUMMER BREAK

Summer's drawing to a close,
but please do not despair,
there's news to keep you on your toes,
excitement in the air...

there is a reason to take heart,
No longer must you wait,
for current weather will restart,
at 2, please don't be late!

Current weather is an informal get-together every Friday afternoon at 2pm (or 2.30!) in the common area on the second floor of the former SISSA building and lasts for approximately 30 minutes.

We take a look at the forecast of the previous Friday and examine any notable local weather during the week and recent seasonal anomalies. Next we take a look at weather and climate in current affairs, identifying any weather/climate related events in the news, monitoring global climate events (droughts, ENSO etc) and sometimes entering a topic in a little more detail. Finally we present the Friday forecast for the following week.

The event is very informal, please shout out opinions! If you want to be added to the mailing list for the current weather reminders or volunteer to join the presenter team, then please send me an email.

2021: After being online only during the pandemic, we are now continuing in hybrid format with zoom/in person, contact me for the Zoom coordinates

Current presenter list rotation below, please volunteer to present, it is only once every 3 months, so the time required is very limited!
Adrian
Fred
Marco
Waed
Cyril
Alejandro
Giovanni
Adnan
Sabina
Please volunteer to take a turn and I will insert your name here!

Photo Galleries

NEW! Each year a bottle of wine goes to the best weather photo contributed to the

2019 ICTP Current weather gallery

2018 ICTP Current weather gallery

2017 ICTP Current weather gallery

2016 ICTP Current weather gallery

Trieste Weather

Here are links to weather resources that are commonly used in the session, some local to Trieste and some global

STATION DATA:

OSMER station data archive

ISMAR Trieste station data.

University of Trieste Stations

Monte Griso station graphics

ARPA air quality measurements

SATELLITE DATA

SAT24: archive of METEOSAT MSG Satellite images

ZOOM.EARTH, near real time global montage, with cyclone tracking and archive

Near realtime MODIS visible

EUMETSAT Animation of IR over Europe

OSMER Satellite images

CloudSat quicklooks

GOS/CNR sea surface temperature monitoring in Adriatic and Med

Europe lightning maps (realtime and last day)

Asia/W Pacific full disc imagery

RADAR DATA

OSMER precipitation radar

OSMER precipitation radar archive

All-Italy Radar

RADIOSONDE DATA

Radiosonde soundings
Unfortunately not on tephigrams, but similar skew-T graphs, where pressure lines are straight and thus theta lines are curved.

MODEL/ANALYSIS DATA

ECMWF Medium Range Charts

Met Office surface pressure charts

Potential temperature on PV=2

Weather Online 300hPa streamlines (and many other variables)

Wetterzentrale: DWD weather maps and a mix of other resources

YR.no: ECMWF temperature, winds and precip maps

WINDS AND CYCLONES

WINDYTY: ECMWF/GFS surface winds and other variables including precip

Tropical Cyclone Tracks (multiple centres)

Global winds

DUST AND AEROSOLS

Italy air quality index

EUMETSAT Dust retrievals Africa and Europe

Met Office Long range forecast maps

GLOBAL CLIMATE MONITORING