"What are the goals of ESTOFEX?

Our goals are:

to issue daily forecasts of severe convective weather in Europe, using an ingedients-based forecasting methodology

to enhance the understanding of severe convective storms in Europe, both among ourselves and others

to promote and demonstrate the use of the European Severe Weather Database (ESWD) as a basis for severe weather research

to verify the forecasts, based on ESWD and lightning data"