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Publish Date: 7 January 2019
The Ishigakijima Meteorological Office – a facility of the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) located in southern Japan – was recognized by WMO as a long-term observing station in 2017 after over 120 years of ongoing meteorological observations there. The Office was established on 5 December 1896 and has hosted meteorological observation work ever since. Read more >>
Publish Date: 7 January 2019
Year 2018 will be remembered for its particularly warm and dry summer. - Year 2018 is one of the top ten hottest years ever recorded. - The growing period's thermal time sum was record high. - Dry summer kept the annual rainfall historically low at several observation stations.
Publish Date: 7 January 2019
December 2018, was warmer than normal in temperatures with below average precipitation and relative humidities. The mean temperature of the month was 21.6°C which is 2.4°C above the long-term normal and this goes on record as the third highest mean temperatures for the month of December since 1902 and exceeded by December 2001 with a record of 22.5°C and December 1998 with a record of 22.3°C. Read more >>
Publish Date: 9 January 2019
Globally, according to the World Meteorological Organization's preliminary assessment, 2018 is on course to be the fourth warmest year on record. Over the Arctic, sea-ice extent was well below average throughout 2018 and reached record-low levels in the first two months of the year. Various extreme weather events continued to wreak havoc in different parts of the world in 2018, including heatwaves in large parts of Europe, Middle East, North Africa, Japan and the Korean Peninsula, cold spells in parts of Europe and Morocco, severe drought in Uruguay, northern and central Argentina, eastern...
Publish Date: 7 January 2019
The Principality of Andorra has become the 192 nd Member of WMO. The small, landlocked nation, situated between France and Spain in the Pyrenees mountains, will become the 51 st country in WMO’s Regional Association for Europe (RAVI).
Publish Date: 11 January 2019
A pocos días de terminar el 2018 y como es de esperar surgen los recuentos, resúmenes y/o conclusiones de lo que significó este año. Nosotros no quisimos estar ajenos a esta tendencia y ya contamos con algunos datos relevantes. Entre ellos destaca que el año 2018 se suma al período seco de más larga duración en Chile central, mejor conocido como Megasequía, y se posiciona dentro de los 5 años más secos en los registros pluviométricos de la ciudad de Santiago. Leer más >>
Publish Date: 17 January 2019
The year 2019 has started where 2018 left off – with extreme weather causing disruption, damage and loss of life. The high impact of these events – some of which are consistent from what we expect as a result of climate change - underline why extreme weather, climate change and environmental risks dominated the World Economic Forum’s annual Global Risks Perception Survey .
Publish Date: 21 January 2019
Environmental risks continue to dominate the World Economic Forum’s annual Global Risks Perception Survey, accounting for three of the top five risks by likelihood and four by impact.
Publish Date: 8 January 2019
An international effort delivering an unsurpassed look at changes occurring in the ocean worldwide has achieved a major milestone as it marks its 20th anniversary. The Argo programme, which incorporates about 4,000 floats worldwide, delivered its two millionth profile of physical data from the from the upper 2 kilometers of the worlds oceans.
Publish Date: 25 January 2019
For the first time in its history, the World Meteorological Organization has addressed the UN Security Council on the risks to international peace and security posed by climate change and weather-related disasters.
