The international meteorological organization – WMO as we know it today – turns 150 this year. We started life with morse code and telegraphs and now embrace super-computing, satellites and artificial intelligence. Our long history of data exchange was a pioneer for the Big Data revolution. Our World Weather Watch preceded the World Wide Web (and is just as important!). Our birth in 1873 was before pollution from greenhouse gases. Climate change is now the defining challenge of our times – and will shape the life of future generations.
