The 12th European conference on RADar in meteorology and hydrology (ERAD 2024) took place in Rome from 9 to 13 September 2024. The conference was organized by CNR-ISAC and Sapienza University of Rome. About 400 participants from academia, industry and weather services joined the conference, including several PHARA team members (Christine Unal, Marc Schleiss, and Remko Uijlenhoet) and user representatives (Hidde Leijnse and Aart Overeem from KNMI).

Topics covered during the conference included:

• Cloud and precipitation physics
• Operational aspects of weather radar
• Weather radar and climate
• Weather radar technologies 
• Radar hydrometeorological applications 
• Radar and society 
• Space borne cloud and precipitation radar

We look back at an exciting conference in beautiful Rome!