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Publish Date: 21 April 2022
The South African government has declared a national state of emergency to deal with the impact of heavy rainfall and flooding in the province of KwaZulu-Natal last week. On 11 and 12 April, between 200 and 400 mm of rain fell in a 24 hour period. The disaster underlines once again the increasing hazards posed by intense rainfall in a changing climate and the need for impact-based early warnings which reach everyone.
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.
Publish Date: 13 April 2022
Eastern Africa is facing the very real prospect that the rains will fail for a fourth consecutive season, placing Ethiopia, Kenya, and Somalia into a drought of a length not experienced in the last 40 years. Humanitarian agencies have issued urgent appeals for support to prevent widespread famine.
Publish Date: 13 April 2022
Recently, China Meteorological Administration (CMA) has issued a notice which has clarified the focus of work of World Meteorological Centre Beijing (WMC-BJ) and the task breakdown plan (hereafter referred to as the plan) of the action plan on global meteorological operational development 2020-2022. It requires that relevant meteorological departments carry out global operational construction work of WMC-BJ, and constantly elevate the fundamental operational capacity of global monitoring, global forecasting, and global services. Read more >>
Publish Date: 12 April 2022
Climate change made extreme rainfall heavier and more damaging during five back-to-back storms in January and February in Madagascar, Malawi and Mozambique, according to rapid attribution analysis by an international team of leading climate scientists. More than a million people were affected, with 230 reported deaths.
Publish Date: 12 April 2022
Two years ago, we wrote that winter thunderstorms in Poland are an extremely rare meteorological phenomenon. The beginning of 2022, however, showed how unpredictable the weather is. Due to the dynamic course of the baric systems, the significant pressure differences, and the increased air instability in Europe the past month – although warmer than the long-term normal – brought a whole range of dangerous hydrological and meteorological phenomena: storms, floods, strong winds, with a record gust on Śnieżka of 54 m/s (over 190 km/h!), snow blizzards, glaze, snowfall, rain and snow, rainfall,...
Publish Date: 12 April 2022
National Early Warning Center(hereafter referred to as the Center) was founded on February 26, 2015, a part of CMA Public Meteorological Service Center. China Meteorological Administration (CMA) is responsible for the construction, operation and maintenance of the national early warning information dissemination system, which releases early warning information at the national, provincial, prefectural and county levels. Now it has 1 national, 31 provincial, and 358 prefecture-level dissemination management platforms and 2016 county-level early warning dissemination application terminals. Read...
Publish Date: 11 April 2022
The Adaptation Fund has re-accredited WMO as a Multilateral Implementing Entity, allowing WMO to propose adaptation projects to build resilience in countries most vulnerable to climate change and extreme weather impacts.
Publish Date: 3 March 2022
The Tokyo Climate Center (TCC) of the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) has released the 67th issue of the TCC News on the TCC website. This issue covers: - JMA's New Seasonal Ensemble Prediction System (JMA/MRI-CPS3) - 2021 global surface temperature 6th highest since 1891 - Highlights of the Global Climate in 2021 - Summary of Japan's Climatic Characteristics for 2021 - TCC Training Seminar on One-month Forecast - Update of website on RA II Information Sharing for Climate Services - TCC Activity Report for 2021 Read more >>
Publish Date: 7 April 2022
The World Health Organization (WHO) has issued an urgent call for accelerated action to preserve and protect health and mitigate climate change as part of an “Our planet, our health” campaign on World Health Day.
