Extreme Windswept Ice Formations By Marko Korošec, Mount Javornik, Dinarides, Slovenia

Since 2005, he is employed as a System Administrator and Supervisor of Road Weather Information System (RWIS) at Slovenian main motorway company DARS. The system is used for monitoring weather conditions along the motorways through whole Slovenian road network with the main focus on optimisation of winter maintenance (MDSS – Maintenance Decision Support System) which is the most important to prevent road blocks and traffic jams with the daily moving international transport in the winter period. The Slovenian motorway company’s RWIS system holds more than 60 professional road weather stations from different world’s professional meteorological equipment providers such as Vaisala and Boschung. Both of these two companies are the world’s top RWIS system equipment companies.
From mid 2007 until late 2012 he was a member of the European project Estofex – The European Storm Forecast Experiment whose goals are daily forecasts of severe convective weather in Europe, enhancement in understanding severe storms and to promote compilation of extreme weather events into the European Severe Weather Database (ESWD). He was an official forecaster for Estofex for 4 years. Since late 2013, he has been involved in a new project called Severe Weather Europe whose goals are to monitor, analyze and forecast extreme and severe weather events across Europe.
In the last years he has attended on several European conferences with scientific papers and talks regarding severe weather with photography and road weather information systems. My photographs have been published in numerous magazines, books and other papers. In mid 2014, he has been awarded as the winner of National Geographic Traveler Photo 2014 contest with a supercell photo taken in Julesburg, Colorado named “The independence day”.