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, hail and lightning indices help insurers set fair premiums and banks to decide where to finance infrastructure, protecting investments, preventing future defaults and to “track weather related incidents” (Abacus Assessors). Reliable climate data also supports stress testing of loan portfolios, guiding

, 9] and convective plume (cloud) CT How quickly cloud droplets convert to rain [0.5, 4] 3 10 24 VF1 Ice fall speed through clouds—important for the development of clouds and determining type (rain, sleet, hail, and snow) and amount of precipitation [0.5, 2] fully 3D field by first taking 348 next-day

0.0 0.0 0.0 Days of hail 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Case Study - Forth Road Bridge Constructors (FCBC) The FCBC team were aware of the challenges that weather brings to the existing bridge and approached us to support planning at the Queensferry Crossing, a vital link

Days of hail 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Case Study - Forth Road Bridge Constructors (FCBC) The FCBC team were aware of the challenges that weather brings to the existing bridge and approached us to support planning at the Queensferry Crossing, a vital link in Scotland’s road

. These brought dangers while flying such as lightning, hail and strong up and down draughts and further dangers while landing from gusts and downbursts near the ground. • To furnish the regular reports required for the correction of range in artillery operations. Successful deployment of balloons

wind damage near Hawes and large hail was observed in Northumberland. Figure 12 - Radar imagery and accompanying photo of cloud-toground lightning strikes over Exeter, Devon, late in the evening on 23rd July 2019. Photo taken by Matt Clark, Met Office. 35 Testbeds as a vehicle for collaboration

planes. In this case, the feature of interest is a supercell, with a cloud top above 12 km. This caused wind damage near Hawes and large hail was observed in Northumberland. 21 Producing, refining and delivering data Maximising the impact of our science for users and stakeholders will only be possible

al., 2021; Slater et al., 2022). UKCP-Local also offers new capability to obtain credible projections of phenomena such as hourly precipitation (Chan et al., 2023; Kendon et al., 2023), hail, lightning (Kahraman et al., 2022), extreme windstorms (Manning et al., 2022) and heat stress in urban

, communications Hail ▶▶ Damage to property ▶▶ Danger to life ▶▶ Dangerous driving conditions ▶▶ Damage to and loss of crops and livestock ▶▶ Loss of livelihood Low rainfall ▶▶ Drought 1 ▶▶ Dust storms ▶▶ Desertification ▶▶ Severe crop losses ▶▶ Water shortages ▶▶ Loss of livelihood ▶▶ Loss of livestock ▶▶ Soil

-Governmental Organisation National Meteorological and Hydrological Services Numerical Weather Prediction (United Nations) Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs Oral Cholera Vaccine A scientific definition of all moisture that falls from the atmosphere, including rainfall, hail and snow