Saturday 31st March 2007
TORRO invites you to participate in the TORRO Annual Spring
Conference. All are welcome but advance booking is required. If you would like
to attend, please complete the booking form below.
10.30am Registration
and Tea/Coffee in Room Dem05
11.00am Welcome and Introductions
11:10am TORRO Annual Review 2006
TORRO Directors look back at last
year’s thunderstorms, hailstorms, ball lightning,
lightning strikes, tornadoes, funnel
clouds, waterspouts, gales, coastal storms and snowstorms. What were
the highlights? Was it an average or exceptional year?
|
Thunderstorms |
Jonathan Webb |
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Lightning Injuries & Deaths |
Derek Elsom |
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Ball Lightning |
Peter Van Doorn |
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Hailstorms |
Jonathan Webb |
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Ireland Tornadoes, Waterspouts & other Whirlwinds |
John Tyrrell |
|
Heavy Snowfalls & Blizzards |
Richard Wild |
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Windstorms |
Steve Roberts |
|
Extreme Rainfalls Division |
John Mason |
|
Review of TORRO Forecasts |
Paul Knightley |
1.00pm TORRO’s AMM (Annual Members Meeting) an appraisal of TORRO’s recent
activities, future activities and plans.
1.30pm Lunch and Informal Weather Discussions
An opportunity to talk to other participants and to show
your weather-related photos and to make new contacts, and Purchase TORRO
merchandise, (teas/coffees available)
2.30pm The Tornado Database Project
A brief description of the Web enabled database being produced
By Stuart Robinson and Richard Pearson
2.45pm UK Tornadoes, Waterspouts &
other Whirlwinds 2006- Terence Meaden
3.15pm Severe weather in Malta – 2006 - Mark Vella Gera
3.45pm General
Questions and Discussion (and Ask the
Experts) ?
4.15pm Meeting closes
Return the completed form to Ian Miller, 5 Avenue Terrace, Ashbrooke, Sunderland, SR2 7HB. Together with a cheque for the conference fee: FULL TORRO members £5, others £10. Subject to spaces being available, concessions may be requested for full-time students, partners of full members, and the unwaged - please direct any enquiries to ian.miller@torro.org.ukTeas/coffees will be provided to participants (but full on-site catering is not available). Alternatively call 077325 39509 for more detail.
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Your name(s)
& address (please PRINT):
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Postcode: ______________ TORRO FULL membership number, if known: ________
Tel: ______________________ E-mail: __________________
Please reserve one place/two places (circle which is
appropriate). I enclose £ _____ (cheque
made payable to TORRO). A map of the meeting location will be
forwarded to you if required. Thank you.
Map Reqd ________
For those attending who are not TORRO members who join at the meeting will pay the members price and half of their conference entrance fee, will be refunded.