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Projects implemented

  • Flash Flood Guidance System with Global Coverage (FFGS)

    Global Projects

    Flash floods are among the world’s deadliest natural disasters with more than 5 000 lives lost annually. Their social, economic and environmental impacts are significant. Accounting for approximately 85% of flooding cases, flash floods also have the highest mortality rate among different classes of flooding, including riverine and coastal. Flash floods differ from river floods in their short time scales and occurrence on small spatial scales, which makes flash flood forecasting a different challenge from large-river flood forecasting.

  • Haiti Weather Systems Programme: Climate Services to Reduce Vulnerability

    National Projects
    Disaster risk reduction
    Aviation
    Agriculture and food security
    Capacity development

    With support from Environment and Climate Change Canada, the Haiti Weather Systems Programme: Climate Services to Reduce Vulnerability project assists in the re-establishment and modernization of hydro-meteorological services in the country, while reducing its vulnerability to hazardous weather, climate and water events and climate change. The project helps the national meteorological and hydrological service, Unité Hydrologique et Météorologique (UHM), in meeting the information requirements and needs of the Haitian users for real-time applications, and addressing the disaster risk reducti

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Regional project strengthens early warnings in the Caribbean

News
Publish Date:
7 August 2023

A successful three and a half-year project in the Caribbean has demonstrated the benefits of strong collaboration between development agencies and local partner and of better weather, water and climate services to save lives and livelihoods of vulnerable communities.

Ten-year project modernizes Haiti’s meteorological and hydrological service

News
Climate
Forecast
Disaster risk reduction
Hurricanes
Capacity development
Partnership
CREWS
Publish Date:
14 April 2022

A successful ten-year project in Haiti has demonstrated the challenges, opportunities and benefits involved in rebuilding and modernizing a national meteorological and hydrological service in an LDC which is regularly hit by extreme weather and climate change impacts.

Active 2021 Atlantic hurricane season officially ends

News
Tropical cyclones
Hurricanes
Disaster risk reduction
Caribbean
Publish Date:
1 December 2021

The 2021 Atlantic hurricane season officially concluded on 30 November. It was so active that, for the second consecutive year, it exhausted the regular list of names from WMO’s rotating list. Accurate forecasts and coordinated early warnings protected life and property throughout the season.

There were 21 named storms with winds of 64 km/h (39 mph) or greater, including seven hurricanes (winds of 118 km/h (74 mph) or greater)...

Caribbean rolls out multi-hazard preparations for hurricane season

News
Hurricanes
Disaster risk reduction
Caribbean
Publish Date:
2 June 2021

The Caribbean is gearing up for yet another active Atlantic hurricane season, compounded by the continuing challenges and constraints of the COVID-19 pandemic and the aftermath of a major volcanic eruption.

New funding and strategic plan boosts Haiti’s Hydro-Meteorological Service

News
Disaster risk reduction
Capacity development
CREWS
Publish Date:
28 January 2021

WMO is supporting the first ever national strategic plan to strengthen Haiti’s Hydro-Meteorological Service (UHM), as well as a new international initiative to build resilience to extreme weather and climate change impacts in the western hemisphere’s most impoverished nation.