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Laboratory Exercise | Beijing 7 July 2007

Practice Nowcasting for Beijing Olympics

Task:
You are to provide nowcasts for afternoon and evening thunderstorms for the sites of the Olympic venues. This is a practice nowcasting exercise that was given to forecasters preparing to nowcast for the Olympics.

You will be asked to make forecast at 4 different times during the day Starting at 12.

You will be provided synoptic maps, soundings, surface stations, radar, satellite and numerical model forecasts at appropriate times.

Ready to Begin?

The time is 1200 local (04 UTC)

You are to make a forecast if a thunderstorm will impact the Olympic venues this afternoon or evening.

Data Sets

Click on the data sets below to help develop your nowcast. When you are ready to make your nowcast, answer the questions on the right or on your supplied worksheet.

500 mb and surface synoptic charts