UAM Simulation of medicane 'Janus'

Model runs in daily basis covering East Mediterranean (25km horizontal resolution), Greece (5km horizontal resolution) and mt. Parnassus (1km horizontal resolution). Model's initial conditions come from GFS model 18Z simulation in 1º horizontal resolution. Charts are available around 9am next morning on this url:

After six months of simultions, UAM (Umeteo - Arahovameteo - Model), has shown good performance on predicting weather phenomena on various scales. Storm "Janus" is considered to be a rare occuring, "tropical-like" storm over Mediterranean waters. Regional models like UAM, are parametrized to simulate weather in middle latitudes. For this reason, UAM was not able to detect the transformation of the MSC storms into a tropical storm. On the other hand after the cyclone has formed over the Ionian sea, it simulated the motion of the cyclone towards Western Greece, as well as the formation of the occluded front that caused floods and damage in Eastern Greece and Thessaly.