Retrospective Analysis of the Dynamics of Hail Processes in Eastern Georgia

Abstract

This paper presents some results of a retrospective analysis of hail processes dynamics in Eastern Georgia. Specifically, GIS technology was used to update (digitize) V. Gigineishvili's (1960) well-known map-scheme of the foci and most common trajectories of intense hail in Eastern Georgia (based on long-term data from the meteorological network and field observations). A comparison was made between the trajectories of the hail processes presented on this map-scheme and the trajectories of the hail clouds on May 28 and July 13, 2019, obtained using radar observations of them. In the future, it is planned to update other previously created maps of the distribution of hazardous hydrometeorological processes in Georgia.