The High Impact Weather Lab at Purdue University is focused on gaining a more complete understanding of high-impact meteorological phenomena. These events can have a wide range of effects including
Our research group produces daily numerical weather predictions using the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model. These forecasts can be found at: Our daily forecasts for the local area that are broadcast by WBAA (Purdue's public radio station) can be found at: extremeweathermakers.com/home/WBAA-forecast The movie below presents a month-long loop of the daily WRF model predictions during the April 2011 period. This month set the U.S. record for most tornadoes reported in a single month. The white shaded regions indicate predicted precipitation intensity, red shaded regions indicate potentially hazardous weather associated with the predicted thunderstorms. Current Members:
Past Members:
|