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Bulletin nº Vol 71 (1) - 2022
Theme: Disaster risk reduction
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Publish Date: 21 March 2022
Over the past 50 years, (1970-2019), a weather, climate or water-related disaster has occurred on average every day – taking the lives of 115 people and causing US$ 202 million in losses daily.
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.
Theme: Disaster risk reduction
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Publish Date: 20 April 2022
The number of recorded disasters increased by a factor of five in the period from 1970-2019, driven by anthropogenic climate change, more extreme weather events and improved reporting. But thanks to improved early warnings and disaster management, the number of deaths decreased almost three-fold over the same period.
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.
Meteoworld : March 2022
Hail Arunachal Pradesh The WMO online Training Workshop on Severe Weather and Impact-based Warning Services for the South and Southeast Asia sub-regions from 28 February to 10 March addressed capacity...
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...
