“The climate crisis is THE defining challenge that humanity faces and is closely intertwined with the inequality crisis. The year 2023 was by far the hottest on record, as were the last 9 years,” said WMO Secretary-General Celeste Saulo. “Extreme weather …
The Committee also retired Dora from the eastern North Pacific name list, not because of direct damage, but because of sensitivities to the name Dora and the indirect meteorological role it played in the devastating wildfires in Maui, Hawaii, in August …
Greenhouse gases Observed concentrations of the three main greenhouse gases – carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide – reached record levels in 2022. Real-time data from specific locations show a continued increase in 2023. CO2 levels are 50 % higher …
Early warnings save lives The current El Niño event, which developed in June 2023, was at its strongest between November and January. It displayed a peak value of about 2.0 °C above the 1991 to 2020 average sea surface temperature for the eastern and …
An international panel of atmospheric scientists verified the temperature recorded by an automated weather station in Syracuse on the Italian island of Sicilia (Sicily). Because WMO Region VI (Europe) contains parts of Asia (e.g. Israel, Türkiye and Syria) …
Top Priorities The new WMO Executive Management will be responsible for implementing WMO’s top priorities. These include the global expansion of Early Warning Services to protect everyone on Earth from hazardous weather and so support climate adaptation, …
The annual average global temperature approached 1.5° Celsius above pre-industrial levels – symbolic because the Paris Agreement on climate change aims to limit the long-term temperature increase (averaged over decades rather than an individual year like …
Career Background Prof. Saulo was recently named an Honorary Member of the American Meteorological Society (AMS) – a prestigious award which recognizes outstanding individuals and organizations in the weather, water, and climate community. Her …
Accelerating climate change At the start of Prof. Taalas term in office in 2016, the global mean abundance of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere was 403.6 parts per million. It was 417.9 parts per million in 2022 – the most recent year for global statistics …
Consistent with the anticipated persistence of widespread above-normal sea-surface temperatures in all areas outside of the near-equatorial eastern Pacific Ocean, there is widespread prediction of above-normal temperatures over almost all land areas. …
Consistent with the prediction of above-normal SSTs over much of the global oceans, there is widespread forecast for the probability of above-normal temperatures over almost all land areas. Positive temperature anomalies are expected for nearly the entire …
