Novice/Vreme
State of the Global Ocean Observing System in 2021 â recovering from the pandemic
15.7.2021|Vreme
GOOS Observations Coordination Group launches the new Ocean Observing System Report Card for 2021 - providing an up-to-date and global view of the status of the Global Ocean Observing System.
The 2021 Ocean Observing System Report Card has just been released. Each year this provides a key insight into the status of the Global Ocean Observing System, assessing observing networks? progress, focusing on what is needed to meet the challenges and demands for ocean information, and encouraging collaborations and new partners to join the ocean observing community.
The 2021 Report focuses on...
New project scales up early warning systems in the Pacific
14.7.2021|Vreme
A new project, Strengthening Hydro-Meteorological Early Warning Systems in the Pacific, has been launched with funding from the Climate Risk and Early Warning Systems Initiative (CREWS).
It will enhance the effectiveness and inclusiveness of Regional Early Warning Systems (EWS) for local and vulnerable populations in Pacific Islands, improving early warning capabilities of national and regional hydro-meteorological centers and strengthening existing governance structures.
Of the 4.3 billion people living in Asia Pacific, it is the 2.3 million inhabiting the Pacific?s Small Island...
Annual lightning report 2020-2021: executive summary - India Meteorological Department (IMD)
13.7.2021|Vreme
The annual lightning report 2020-2021 contains a mapping of entire lightning strikes over India and all 37 states and union territories along with its impacts and detailed analysis. The report is of extremely high value and it is very useful for disaster management authorities/departments at the National and state level that is NDMA and SDMAs, all the scientific institutions involved in weather and lightning for understanding the hazard, generation of early warning and solutions to lightning, pulmonologists, weather scientists, disaster management professionals, rural and urban development...
Alliance for Hydromet Development: Close the Gap
9.7.2021|Vreme
The international community has issued a rallying call for greater investments in weather forecasts, early warning systems, and climate services ? known as hydromet ? to boost climate change adaptation and resilience to extreme weather.
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said the first Hydromet Gap report ?tells us how far we need to go to ensure all people have access to accurate, timely weather and climate information.?
?But for accurate forecasts, we need reliable weather and climate data. Today, large gaps remain in basic weather data, particularly in Small Island...
New product from IMGW-PIB: High-resolution forest fire danger forecasting system
9.7.2021|Vreme
Since the beginning of the new year, IMGW-PIB has released a new testing system for fire danger forecasting dedicated to forest areas.?Forecasts are made for the whole of Poland, on a grid with a spatial resolution of 2.5 x 2.5 km. They are prepared once a day at 12:00 UTC, with a time advance of 24 and 48 hours.?This is the first forest fire danger forecasting system in Poland with high spatial resolution and such a long forecast period.?The forest fire danger forecasting system was developed at the Meteorological Analysis and Long-Range Forecasts Office within the structures...
Hydromet Investments save lives and make economic sense
8.7.2021|Vreme
First Hydromet Gap Report calls for scaled-up action
Geneva, 8 July 2021 (WMO) - An estimated 23,000 lives per year could be saved potential annual benefits of at least US$ 162 billion could be realized by improving weather forecasts, early warning systems, and climate information ? known as hydromet, according to a new report.
The first Hydromet Gap Report, launched on 8 July, tells us how far we have to go to tap the benefits of effective weather and climate services. It presents the challenges of the complex global and local undertaking required and proposes priority actions to scale...
North America heatwave almost impossible without climate change
8.7.2021|Vreme
The record-breaking heatwave in parts of the US and Canada at the end of June would have been virtually impossible without the influence of human-caused climate change, according to a rapid attribution analysis by an international team of leading climate scientists. Climate change, caused by greenhouse gas emissions, made the heatwave at least 150 times more likely to happen.
Pacific Northwest areas of the US and Canada saw temperatures that broke records by several degrees, including a new all-time Canadian temperature record of 49.6?C (121.3?F) in the village of Lytton - well above the...
Early morning orbit meteorological satellite Fengyun-3E is successfully lifted off - China Meteorological Administration
7.7.2021|Vreme
On 7:28 a.m. 5 July (BJT), 2021, Fengyun-3E meteorological satellite (hereafter referred to as FY-3E satellite) was successfully lifted off at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, Gansu province. It is the first early morning orbit meteorological satellite for civil use in the world.?FY-3E satellite will fill in the vacancy of global early morning orbit observing, joining Chinese FY-3C and FY-3D satellite to realize coverage of early morning, morning and afternoon orbits. They will provide global data coverage for numerical weather prediction (NWP) at 6-hour interval, and effectively...
Monthly Weather Summary - June 2021 - Kingdom of Bahrain
7.7.2021|Vreme
June 2021 was slightly warmer than normal in temperatures with above average Wind Speed.?The mean temperature of the month was 34.1?C which is 0.1?C above the long-term normal for June. Note that the highest mean monthly temperature for June was 36.3?C recorded in 2019.?The mean maximum temperature of the month was 38.2?C which is 0.4?C below the long-term normal. Note that the highest mean monthly maximum for June was 40.9?C recorded in 2019. ?
Read more >>?
Northern hemisphere wildfire season flares up
6.7.2021|Vreme
The 2021 Boreal wildfire season in the Northern Hemisphere is flaring?up, with a large and increasing number of intense fires; most notably across northeastern Russia, western Canada and the western United States.
High temperatures and severe drought during recent weeks may be contributing to a higher number of more intense fires.
There is growing evidence that climate change increases the frequency and/or severity of fire weather around the world. Land management alone cannot explain recent increases in wildfires, according to a 2020 update from internationally acclaimed...
WMO verifies one temperature record for Antarctic continent and rejects another
1.7.2021|Vreme
New rapid response team will provide guidance on reported extremes
GENEVA, 1 July 2021 (WMO) - The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) has recognized a new record high temperature for the Antarctic continent of 18.3? Celsius on 6 February 2020 at the Esperanza station (Argentina). However, it rejected an even higher temperature, of 20.75?C, which was reported on 9 February 2020 at an automated permafrost monitoring station (Brazil) on Seymour Island.
The previous record for the Antarctic region (continental, including mainland and surrounding islands] was 17.5?C (63.5?F) recorded on...
IPCC confirms release date and approval session details for next report
30.6.2021|Vreme
GENEVA, 30 June?? The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) will release its next report, the Working Group I contribution to the Sixth Assessment Report (AR6), on 9 August 2021 following an approval session held remotely to consider the document from 26 July to 6 August.
It will be the first time that the IPCC has conducted a virtual approval session for one of its reports, although it has held plenary sessions of the Panel and IPCC Bureau remotely to conduct other urgent business on several occasions during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Working Group I assesses the physical...
Flood on the maps - National Hydrological Protection Center - Poland
29.6.2021|Vreme
According to the WHO, since 1998, more than 2 billion people worldwide have been affected by floods ? directly or indirectly. The European Environment Agency reports that between 1980 and 2017, the economic losses due to floods in the European Union alone amounted to nearly 160 billion Euro. Besides the construction and development of flood prevention infrastructure, the risk management of floods is an important tool for combating floods. The most important element for assessing and verifying flood risks are the flood hazard maps and the flood risk maps, developed as part of the project by...
Global observing system needs sustainable investments
29.6.2021|Vreme
More than 100 participants representing 28 potential funders and 21 observer institutions attended the second funders? forum of the Systematic Observations Financing Facility (SOFF) on the 28th of June to advance discussions on on the timeline and costs and benefits.
The forum built on the discussions of the first funders? forum, and addressed key issues that delegations raised during the first forum and in subsequent consultations. It focused on clarifying the critical role of observations in the meteorological value chain and the SOFF value proposition; the proposed institutional and...
June ends with exceptional heat
29.6.2021|Vreme
An exceptional and dangerous heatwave is baking the Northwestern USA and Western Canada in areas which are more synonymous with the cold. Temperatures have reached more than 45.0?C on consecutive days, with extremely warm nights in between.
This unprecedent event has caused many fatalities and is having multiple major impacts: ?heat stress in people, animals and vegetation; air quality (pollutants due to hot stable air); forest fire risk; possibility of landslides caused by glacier melting in mountains; damages and malfunctioning of infrastructure and transport systems not prepared...
The western regions of Libya have been affected by a desert depression causing severe heat wave since Monday 21 June - National Meteorological Centre - Libya
28.6.2021|Vreme
[[{"fid":"22046","view_mode":"default","fields":{"format":"default","field_file_image_alt_text[und][0][value]":"Libya","field_file_image_title_text[und][0][value]":"Libya"},"type":"media","field_deltas":{"1":{"format":"default","field_file_image_alt_text[und][0][value]":"Libya","field_file_image_title_text[und][0][value]":"Libya"}},"attributes":{"alt":"Libya","title":"Libya","style":"height: 201px; width: 300px; float: right;","class":"media-element file-default","data-delta":"1"}}]]A severe heat wave has swept the western regions of Libya since Monday 21 / 6 / 2021 as a result of a desert...
WMO awards IMO prize to Prof. In-Sik Kang
28.6.2021|Vreme
The World Meteorological Organization has honoured Prof. In-Sik?Kang, Professor Emeritus at Seoul National University (SNU), Republic of Korea, with its top award for his outstanding contributions to climate science.
WMO?s Executive Council selected Prof. Kang as winner of the 66th IMO Prize. Established in 1955 and named after the predecessor of the WMO, the International Meteorological Organization (IMO), it is awarded every year?to individuals in recognition of their lifetime work in the field of meteorology, hydrology, climatology or related fields.
The award cites Prof....
Warming stripes show that climate change is here and now
21.6.2021|Vreme
Broadcast meteorologists and climate scientists are uniting on June 21 ? the Summer/Winter Solstice ? for Show Your Stripes day to raise awareness of the urgent need to act on climate change.
UN Climate Change, the World Meteorological Organization and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change are backing the campaign, which is also designed to build momentum for a strong outcome of the UN Climate Change Conference COP26 in Glasgow in December.
2021 is a make-or-break year for climate action, with the window to prevent the worst impacts of climate change ? which include ever more...
Climate Risk and Early Warning Systems mobilizes more funding
18.6.2021|Vreme
The Climate Risk and Early Warning Systems (CREWS) Initiative is mobilizing an additional US$ 28 million to deliver early warning systems in Least Developed Countries (LDCs) and small island developing States (SIDs) to protect lives and livelihoods from the impacts of severe weather.
This decision was announced at the 13th Steering Committee Meeting of the Climate Risk & Early Warning Systems (CREWS) initiative on 17 June.
Countries and regions that have early warning systems as a priority in their climate change nationally determined contribution and adaptation plans are identified...
64th issue of the TCC News - Japan Meteorological Agency
18.6.2021|Vreme
The Tokyo Climate Center (TCC) of the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) has released the 64th issue of the TCC News on the TCC website.?This issue covers:?- El Niño Outlook (June - December 2021)?- JMA's Seasonal Numerical Ensemble Prediction for Boreal Summer 2021?- Summary of the 2020/2021 Asian Winter Monsoon?- TCC and WMC Tokyo co-contributions to Regional Climate Outlook Forums
Read more >>?
