CANCELED! Talk of Tomáš PUCIK

(European Severe Storms Laboratory) "Forecasting and climatology of large hail in Europe" Hail is the costliest thunderstorm-related phenomenon. A single storm moving over a large metropolitan area can cause damage worth billions of Euros. In this talk, we take a journey through hail-related topics. We start with which factors make hail more or less damaging and continue with how the hail grows in the storms and which factors are needed to grow hailstones that exceed 5 cm in diameter. Then we continue with state-of-the-art hail forecasting, nowcasting using radar and satellite, and we cover climatology of large hail across Europe and world-wide. We end up what research avenues are there to pursue concerning the hail. And of course, we look at some interesting cases of destructive hailstorms from Europe.