Météo-France was surprised by very violent storms that occurred between 8:15 am and 9:15 am on Thursday morning in the west of Corsica and produced very strong gusts of more than 200 km/h. The Marignana station measured an exceptional outburst
224 km/h. Record: And in Calvi, the wind was blowing at a speed of 197 km/h (against the speed of 158 km/h on December 28, 1999). “But from 10 o’clock the winds died down.”, clarifies Météo-France forecaster Christophe Morel. The forecast model did not clearly predict such a violent situation.
“Thunderstorms are very complex phenomena to predict with very small-scale structures depending on elements aloft, violent wind currents aloft, and downwind wind shear. Sometimes our Arome prediction model cannot decide between different possible scenarios.”, justifies Francois Guran, forecast engineer at Météo-France. However, this brief, intense phenomenon…
Source: Le Figaro
