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Displaying 15 of about 19 resultsThe social and economic impact of tornadoes in Europe is analyzed using tornado reports from the European Severe Weather Database between 1950 and 2015. Despite what is often assumed by the general public and even by meteorologists and researchers, tornadoes do occur in Europe and they are associated with injuries, fatalities, and damages, although thei…
Lisbon City Council through Civil Protection Service (CML/SMPC), has continued to invest in the principles defined by the Sendai Framework 2015-2030. It does so with the goal of strengthening its strategic partnerships in the financial, environmental, social, political, cultural, technological, and research domains that have greatly…
The mysteries of severe weather in the southeastern U.S. — and why tornadoes kill and injure more people here than any other part of the country — will get an in-depth probe this spring, as researchers from 11 research institutions around the country gather at UAH for the second year of a major research campaign.
Coordinated by the National Oceanic and…
Annual aggregated risk to the U.S. property industry from severe convective storm (SCS) is as high as the risk from hurricanes, based on 2003-2015 Verisk Analytics’® Property Claim Services® (PCS) loss statistics. Average annual loss (in 2016 USD) from severe convective storms is $11.23 billion compared to $11.28 billion from hurricanes. If we consider…
On the night of February 19, tornadic thunderstorms tore through northern sections of San Antonio, Texas. Audrey Gagné and her husband were unknowingly heading toward them, on the way home from a trip to Dallas.
Although Gagné knew thunderstorms were in the forecast, she was not anticipating a threat from tornadoes, and the couple continued onward as l…
While the Weather Research and Forecasting Innovation Act of 2017 calls for improving the prediction of tornadoes beyond one hour, research suggests that lead times in the one hour range may make the public less likely to respond with the same sense of urgency.
Recently, the Washington Post Capital Weather Gang wrote an interesting article about advanc…
Their research, which is being published in the journal Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, is the first ever threat calculation of tornadoes across the European continent.
The team analysed tornado reports from the European Severe Weather Database between 1950 and 2015, looking at the social and economic impact of tornadoes on the contine…
Climate Game is an interactive online game that takes you on a quest to conquer a virgin island covered by green trees and thick forests. Harvest, utilise and plant trees. Manage your income to develop island infrastructure but mind the consequences of your actions! As with all human activities, progress comes with a price. Thus, the further in the game…
By Bogdan Antonescu
It is often assumed that tornadoes do not occur in Europe and that they are a weather phenomena specific to the United States. But this is far from true. Not only do tornadoes strike in Europe – they do millions of pounds worth of damage, cause serious injuries and even lead to fatalities. Despite these facts they are still perceive…
GENEVA – The World Meteorological Organization has announced « world records » for the highest reported historical death tolls from tropical cyclones, tornadoes, lightning and hailstorms. It marks the first time the official WMO Archive of Weather and Climate Extremes has broadened its scope from temperature and weather records to address the impa…
BONN, 17 October 2017 – The UN Secretary-General’s Special Representative for Disaster Risk Reduction, Mr. Robert Glasser, today announced that next year will see the start of worldwide monitoring of disaster losses from extreme weather events and earthquakes through the Bonn office of the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR).
Speaking at the…
The Domain Committee on Information Technology in Disaster Risk Reduction at the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) has the honor to announce the 2nd IFIP Conference on Information Technology in Disaster Risk Reduction (ITDRR 2017), October 25 - 27th, 2017, University of National and World Economy, Sofia, Bulgaria.
ITDRR-2017 pr…
Climate change will cause stresses and uncertainties that will pose challenges to urban living, affecting the society and basic urban services. Managing urban areas has become one of the most important development challenges of this century. What can be done to protect people from disasters and to make Lisbon more resilient to disasters? To remind this…
By JoAnna Wendel
A still from a brief video of storms sweeping across southeastern Louisiana on 7 February. Tornadoes spawn in the thick mass of clouds in the upper right where concentrated bumpy regions indicate upwelling winds that may form tornadoes. NOAA’s newest weather satellite, GOES-16, took the images.
A brief video released last w…
This study shows that over alerting rates can be reduced if the geo-targeting capabilities of Wireless Emergency Alerts (WEA) are used effectively. A significant long-standing challenge for imminent threat alert originators (AOs) at all levels of government is how to quickly communicate warning messages to people in danger, while avoiding to warn those…