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Tropical Cyclone Eloise hits Mozambique
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Tropical cyclones, Disaster risk reduction
Publish Date: 22 January 2021
Tropical Cyclone Eloise made landfall early morning on 23 January near Mozambique's city of Beira, causing widespread damage and flooding on a long swathe of coastline. The storm is also bringing heavy rainfall to neighbouring southern African nations.
USA will rejoin Paris Agreement
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Climate change
Publish Date: 21 January 2021
The World Meteorological Organization has joined the international community in welcoming the announcement by President Joe Biden that the United States of America will re-enter the Paris Agreement on Climate Change.
WMO supports healthy, sustainable, resilient cities
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Climate change, Urban development, Greenhouse gases, Disaster risk reduction
Publish Date: 20 January 2021
A preparatory webinar for the 16th Global Forum on Human Settlements was held on January 15, 2021. Its theme was “International Green Model City Initiative: Call for Stronger Actions Towards Healthy, Resilient, and Carbon-Neutral Cities.”
2020 was one of three warmest years on record
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El Niño / La Niña, Climate change
Publish Date: 15 January 2021
Geneva, 14 January 2021 - The year 2020 was one of the three warmest on record, and rivalled 2016 for the top spot, according to a consolidation of five leading international datasets by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). A naturally occurring cooling climate phenomenon, La Niña, put a brake on the heat only at the very end of the year.
Factors behind the heavy snowfall and low temperatures in Japan from mid-December 2020 onward and weather outlook - Japan Meteorological Agency
News from Members
Publish Date: 20 January 2021
Japan experienced a series of heavy snowfall events from mid-December 2020 onward, especially the Sea of Japan side of the country. The snowfall amounts were record-breaking in some places. One of the factors for these events is considered to be the southward meandering of both the polar front and subtropical jet streams around Japan, resulting in continuous cold air flow into the country. The meandering of these polar front and subtropical jet streams was likely to be linked to a blocking high over western Siberia and the ongoing La Ni?a condition, respectively. The summary of investigation...
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Step up climate change adaptation, says UN report
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Climate change, Climate services, Partnership
Publish Date: 14 January 2021
As temperatures rise and climate change impacts intensify, nations must urgently step up action to adapt to the new climate reality or face serious costs, damages and losses, a new UN Environment Programme (UNEP) report finds.
Top 10 weather and climate events in 2020 unveiled - China Meteorological Administration
News from Members
Publish Date: 12 January 2021
Recently, the selection result of the top 10 domestic and global weather and climate events in 2020 has been unveiled. The selection results of the top 10 weather and climate events in China have reflected the major features of weather and climate conditions in 2020 in China: firstly, more days of rainstorm with strong intensity and high overlapping of rain coverage in the flood season; secondly, more days of high temperature and staged meteorological drought in many regions; thirdly, early onset, high frequency and strong intensity of severe convective weather; fewer generations and...
The Year's Weather – 2020 - Hong Kong Observatory
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Publish Date: 12 January 2021
Globally, 2020 is on track to be one of the three warmest years on record according to the World Meteorological Organization's preliminary assessment. Over the Arctic, the sea-ice extents for July and October 2020 were the lowest on record and the annual minimum in September was also the second lowest. In 2020, various extreme weather events continued to wreak havoc in different parts of the world, including heatwaves in the Australia, Caribbean region, Mexico, South America, western Europe, eastern Mediterranean, Japan, and Siberia; extreme cold events in North America and the southern part...
The weather in Germany in 2020 - Deutscher Wetterdienst
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Publish Date: 12 January 2021
2020 being the second-warmest year confirms ongoing climate change Offenbach, 30 December 2020 – With an annual average temperature of 10.4 degrees Celsius (°C), 2020 is the second-warmest year since the beginning of nationwide weather recordings in 1881. Only 2018 was slightly warmer with 10.5 °C. The next years to closely follow are 2019 and 2014 with 10.3 °C each. This has been announced by the Deutscher Wetterdienst (DWD) after an initial analysis of the observations from its approximately 2,000 measuring stations. Tobias Fuchs, head of Climate at the DWD: “The very warm year of 2020...