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Publish Date: 8 January 2020
On January 1, website of weather forecast service for important cities along Belt and Road covering 137 signatory countries (territories) was officially in operation. The public can log on to the official Belt and Road Portal of China and website of China Meteorological Administration (CMA), and get real-time access to the future 5-day weather forecast of targeted cities. This initiative is an implementation of global monitoring, global forecast, and global service and fills the blank of national-level Belt and Road meteorological service products. It has marked that China’s global refined...
Publish Date: 8 January 2020
Transboundary smoke haze pollution has been affecting the Southeast Asia region for decades. The ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) Specialised Meteorological Centre (ASMC) was designated in 1995 as the regional centre to perform fires and smoke haze monitoring and assessment functions, and the issuance of early warning on transboundary haze occurrence. ASMC leverages on the latest remote sensing technologies and uses extensively data from a suite of satellites for 24/7 operational monitoring and assessment of the regional fire hotspot and haze situation. The early warnings serve...
Publish Date: 8 January 2020
The Observing Systems Capability Analysis and Review Tool (OSCAR) provides detailed information on Earth Observation applications and on World Meteorological Organization (WMO) research and global coordination. The resource consists of OSCAR/Requirements, OSCAR/Space and OSCAR/Surface (a developing inventory of all surface-based stations and related capabilities) as interlinked components. WMO Members need to learn how to use the tool for successful implementation of the WMO Integrated Global Observing System (WIGOS) Metadata Standard approved at the Seventeenth Session of the World...
Publish Date: 13 January 2020
Globally, 2019 is likely to be the second or third warmest year on record according to the World Meteorological Organization's preliminary assessment. Over the Arctic, the daily sea-ice extent minimum in September 2019 was the second lowest in the satellite record and October has seen further record low extents. In 2019, various extreme weather events ravaged different parts of the world, including unrelenting heatwaves in much of western and northern Europe, Middle East, India, Japan, Australia, New Zealand and southern South America, a significant cold spell in central North America, severe...
Publish Date: 20 January 2020
In December 2019, high pressure only influenced the weather in Germany at the start and end of the month; low-pressure areas dominated at other times. These low-pressure areas brought significant precipitation to the south-west, whereas they were weakened when they reached all other regions, where in-stead sunny conditions frequently prevailed. Inflows of mostly mild and, in some cases, unusually mild air arrived so, once again this year, most people did not see their wish for a white Christmas fulfilled. Overall, December did not see much precipitation, was very sunny and much too mild. This...
Publish Date: 20 January 2020
As has been the case for most of the previous years, 2019 in Germany was again too dry, with more sunshine than usual and, above all, much too warm. It was the third warmest year since regular measurements first began in 1881. This is what the initial analysis by the Deutscher Wetterdienst (DWD) of data from its around 2,000 weather stations shows. Read more >>
Publish Date: 6 February 2020
January 2020 was warmer than normal in temperatures and above-average precipitation. The mean temperature of the month was 18.1°C which is 1.1°C above the long-term normal for January. The mean maximum temperature of the month was 21.0°C which is 1.0°C above the long-term normal. The highest temperature recorded during the month was 29.2°C which occurred on the 4th January at Bahrain International Airport and goes on record as the third highest maximum temperature for January since 1946 and only exceeded by 23 rd January 1953 with a record of 31.7°C and 31 st January 2015 with a record of 29....
Publish Date: 7 February 2020
The Korea Meteorological Administration (KMA) is going to retire Korea’s first geostationary meteorological satellite, COMS, or Communication, Ocean and Meteorological Satellite. The COMS’ meteorological imager (MI) will be terminating its observation on 31 March 2020 at UTC 23:59. The COMS, located at 128.2 °E and operated by KMA, was launched on 26 June 2010 and started its official operation on 1 April after its 10-month in-orbit test. It was operated two years longer than its seven-year design lifespan and finally, its meteorological mission is about to reach the end-point after nine...
Publish Date: 10 February 2020
For the first time, forecasters from across the Caribbean have been participating in a major international atmospheric and oceanic field campaign, entitled, " Elucidating the Role of Clouds-Circulation Coupling in Climate " (EUREC 4 A). The field campaign is focused on the areas east and south of Barbados, from 20 January to 20 February 2020. Read more >>
Publish Date: 10 February 2020
Since December 2019, eastern and western Japan have seen significantly above normal temperatures, and the Sea of Japan side of the country has experienced record-low snowfall. These climate extremes are attributed to weaker-than-normal southward cold air-flow to Japan’s main islands and synoptic climate conditions characterized by nonpersistence of typical winter pressure patterns around Japan. These phenomena may be attributable to a northward meandering of the subtropical jet stream over and around Japan and a persistent positive phase of the Arctic Oscillation. Read more >>
