World Meteorological Organization Press Releases

• Published on June 10, 2024 - 13:01 GMT

  

  Early warnings and greenhouse gas monitoring top WMO Executive Council agenda

  Early Warnings for All The WMO Road Map for the Early Warnings for All initiative outlines the vision, objectives and actions to enhance the delivery and use of multi-hazard early warning systems for weather, climate, and water-related hazards. It covers …

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• Published on June 10, 2024 - 13:01 GMT

  

  Early warnings and greenhouse gas monitoring top WMO Executive Council agenda

  The Executive Council meeting from 10-14 June will consider a raft of other measures, including scaled up action on the cryosphere (ice and snow) in the face of rapid climate change; closing the gap in the global observing network; improving climate …

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• Published on June 8, 2024 - 02:25 GMT

  

  Multilingualism and Diversity at WMO – Bringing the Secretariat Closer to Members and Regions

  By Maja Carrieri and Johannes Kratzheller, WMO Secretariat The widely diverse staff at WMO hail from about 90 countries. They enrich the working environment by bringing a vast array of cultures and languages into the Organization, which contribute to WMO’s …

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• Published on June 8, 2024 - 02:25 GMT

  

  WMO Gender Action Plan

  Over the last 10 years, WMO has adopted a Gender Action Plan then an Updated Gender Action Plan. Why the push for accelerating the inclusion of women within the Organization as well as in projects and activities on-the-ground? Because the voices of both …

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• Published on June 8, 2024 - 02:25 GMT

  

  All-Members Approach to Project Coordination on Early Warnings in the Caribbean

  By Arlene Laing, Kenneth Kerr and Haley Anderson of the Caribbean Meteorological Organization The coastal regions, small-island states and territories of the Caribbean are highly exposed and vulnerable to natural hazard, especially weather, climate and …

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• Published on June 8, 2024 - 02:25 GMT

  

  Co-designing Strategies to Manage Drought-related Risks in Southern South America

  Carolina Vera1,2,3, María de los Milagros Skansi1,4, Cecilia Hidalgo1,2 Increasingly frequent and long droughts affect southern South America. Millions of people in Argentina, Plurinational State of Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay and Uruguay are employed …

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• Published on June 8, 2024 - 02:25 GMT

  

  Tailoring Education and Training to Specific Needs of Members

  By Paul Bugeac, WMO Secretariat Climate change is increasing the frequency and intensity of extreme weather, climate and water-related hazards, creating a growing demand from WMO Members for assistance to implement sustainable early warning systems and …

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• Published on June 8, 2024 - 02:25 GMT

  

  A Financing Perspective on Tailoring WMO Technical Assistance to Members’ Needs

  By John Harding, CREWS Secretariat and Lina Sjaavik and Jean-Baptiste Migraine, WMO Secretariat The WMO Strategic Plan 2024–2027 envisions “a world where all nations, especially the most vulnerable, are more resilient to the socioeconomic consequences of …

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• Published on June 8, 2024 - 02:25 GMT

  

  An Interview with Celeste Saulo, WMO Secretary-General

  By Sylvie Castonguay, WMO Secretariat Bulletin – How does it make you feel to be the “first” female Secretary-General of WMO? Few of us get to mark history by being first. Celeste – I never stopped believing in myself throughout the long campaign to be …

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• Published on June 7, 2024 - 21:07 GMT

  

  Women’s Stories: WMO Junior Professional Officers 10 years later

  Exactly 10 years ago, Bulletin 63-1 (2014) invited several young Junior Professional Officers (JPOs), social and scientific professionals in the early careers, to write about their experiences at WMO and their hopes for the future. None expected to remain …

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• Published on June 7, 2024 - 10:49 GMT

  

  76th issue of the TCC News

  76th issue of the TCC News Credit: Japan Meteorological Agency

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• Published on June 6, 2024 - 14:14 GMT

  

  Monthly Weather Summary - May 2024

  The mean temperature of the month was 31.5°C which is 0.4°C above the long-term normal for May. Note that the highest mean monthly temperature for May was 33.5°C recorded in 2021.  The mean maximum temperature of the month was 36.3°C which is 0.2°C above …

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• Published on June 5, 2024 - 21:47 GMT

  

  A Commitment for the Years Ahead

  By WMO Secretary-General Celeste Saulo Over the last decades, the continuing intensification and increasing frequency of extreme weather events have revealed the accuracy of the projected impacts of climate change in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate …

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• Published on June 5, 2024 - 19:51 GMT

  

  Global temperature is likely to exceed 1.5°C above pre-industrial level temporarily in next 5 years

  The global mean near-surface temperature for each year between 2024 and 2028 is predicted to be between 1.1°C and 1.9°C higher than the 1850-1900 baseline, according to the WMO report. It says that it is likely (86%) that at least one of these years will …

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• Published on June 5, 2024 - 19:51 GMT

  

  A “moment of truth” for climate action says UN Secretary-General

  Mr Guterres cited a new WMO report predicting even more record temperatures in the next five years, and on new data from the EU’s Copernicus Climate Change Service that the past 12 months were the hottest eve, with temperatures more than 1.6 °C above the …

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• Published on June 5, 2024 - 18:25 GMT

  

  Global temperature is likely to exceed 1.5°C above pre-industrial level temporarily in next 5 years

  The global mean near-surface temperature for each year between 2024 and 2028 is predicted to be between 1.1°C and 1.9°C higher than the 1850-1900 baseline, according to the WMO report. It says that it is likely (86%) that at least one of these years will …

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• Published on June 4, 2024 - 16:40 GMT

  

  New funding from Denmark will scale up Early Warnings for All initiative in Africa

  While the initiative is well underway, significant gaps are still being identified, particularly in Least Developed Countries (LDCs) and Small Island Developing States (SIDS) in Africa.  Niger, Somalia, South Sudan, Tanzania and Uganda face significant …

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• Published on June 4, 2024 - 12:00 GMT

  

  National meteorological services are frontline health partners: Celeste Saulo

  WMO Secretary-General Celeste Saulo joined Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO Director-General, and other global health leaders in a Strategic Roundtable on climate change and health on the closing day of the Assembly on 1 June. The event aimed to bolster …

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• Published on May 31, 2024 - 21:37 GMT

  

  WMO promotes Early Warnings for All at AI For Good Global Summit

  “WMO has long been at the forefront of innovation. We coordinate the international exchange of data that underpins modern day forecasting capabilities. Several times a day, nations across the globe and many other partners measure weather conditions, using …

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• Published on May 31, 2024 - 07:03 GMT

  

  El Niño is forecast to swing to La Niña later this year

  Latest forecasts from WMO Global Producing Centres of Long-Range Forecasts give equal chances (50%) of either neutral conditions or a transition to La Niña during June-August 2024. The chance of La Niña conditions increases to 60% during July-September and …

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