To be held in Room DEM06, Oxford Brookes University, Gipsy Lane Headington, Oxford.
TORRO invites you to participate in the TORRO Annual Spring Conference. All are welcome but advance booking is preferred. If you would like to attend, please print and complete the booking form below. Alternatively there is a Word Document Format of the agenda that also includes the booking form.
10:30am - Registration and Tea/Coffee in Room Dem05
11:00am - Welcome and Introductions
11:10am - TORRO Annual Review 2007 - Part 1.
TORRO Directors look back at last year's thunderstorms, hailstorms, ball lightning, lightning strikes, gales,
coastal storms and snowstorms. What were the highlights? Was it an average or exceptional year?
Thunderstorms - Jonathan Webb
Lightning Injuries & Deaths - Derek Elsom
Ball Lightning* Peter Van Doorn
Hailstorms Jonathan Webb
Review of TORRO Forecasts Paul Knightley
Heavy Snowfalls & Blizzards Richard Wild
Windstorms - David Bowker
Coastal Storms - Robert Doe
* Two short video films of ball lightning (one from the USA and another during a thunderstorm in Kent in
Sept 1989) will also be shown during the conference.
1:00pm - TORRO's AMM (Annual Members Meeting)
1:30pm - Lunch and Informal Weather Discussions
An opportunity to talk to other participants and to show your weather-related photos, make new contacts and
purchase TORRO merchandise, (teas/coffees available).
2:30pm - TORRO Annual Review 2007 - Part 2.
TORRO Directors look back at last year's (a) tornadoes, funnel clouds, waterspouts and (b) Extreme
rainfalls
UK Tornadoes, Waterspouts & other Whirlwinds 2007 - Terence Meaden
Ireland Tornadoes, Waterspouts & other Whirlwinds in 2007 John Tyrrell
3:00pm - Extreme Rainfall events in Summer 2007: 24-25 June and 19-20 July.
John Mason reports on these events, their background, and the subsequent floods. Discussion invited,
including personal experiences and film.
3:45pm - Severe weather in Malta - 2007 - Mark Vella Gera
4:20pm - General Questions and Discussions
4:30pm - Meeting Closes
Return the completed form to Ian Miller, 5 Avenue Terrace, Ashbrooke, Sunderland, SR2 7HB. together with a cheque (if applicable) for the conference fee: NB-FULL TORRO members are FREE, others £5. 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.uk Teas/coffees will be provided to participants (but full on-site catering is not available). Alternatively call 077325 39509 for more detail."
Please direct any enquiries to ian.c.miller@btinternet.com. Alternatively call 077325 39509 for more details.
Print and Complete the following section and send with your cheque
Your name(s) & address (please USE BLOCK CAPITALS):_________________________
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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 £ _______ (cheques made payable to TORRO. A map of the meeting
location will be forwarded to you if required.)
Thank you.
This page will display the latest information on the next TORRO meeting or conference as it becomes available.
The next meeting will be Autumn 2008.