Cyclonic activity and severe Jugo in the adriatic

A case study on 2–3 April 1996 is presented, as an example of the typical chain of mesoscale events over the Adriatic region. The case is characterised by the extreme amounts of daily precipitation along the Croatian coast of the Adriatic. Besides heavy precipitation, strong jugo, with gusts up to 30 m/s, occurred in southern Adriatic. Analysis of the Meteosat infrared images shows that a shallow cyclonic vortex develops in the Adriatic parallel to the development of the cyclone in the Mediterranean. The ability of the mesoscale ALADIN model to simulate the process is presented. Results of simulation show that the model successfully reproduced the distribution and the intensity of recorded precipitation as well as the jugo strength along the coast.