The scientists who roll out when the wild weather rolls in
As Queensland’s storm season rolls in scientists are moving out into the path of fierce systems to help the Bureau of Meterology make better predictions.
Researchers from the University of Queensland hope to use storm chasing to understand wild weather, and recently took Seven News out to Beaudesert, south of Brisbane to monitor systems.
“The algorithms we're developing, the Bureau of Meteorology will have them as part of their tool set for their radars, and they'll be able to detect hail with higher confidence,” UQ’s Dr Joshua Soderholm said.
US Tornado Chaser Andrew Scwartz said the team was able to ”deploy the instruments and we got some good data, hopefully” on their recent expedition.
The challenges the team face in Beaudesert are the perfect example of why they’re conducting the research.
Fast moving storm cells can be incredibly hard to track, much less predict, and know whether or not they'll produce hail, and where that might fall.
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“We had to anticpate where hail might have been falling, we weren't exactly sure, but we got the spot right,” Dr Soderholm said.
“The work we're doing can provide a much clearer indication of where hail is.”
