A joint Flash Flood Guidance System (FFGS) workshop and Steering Committee Meeting for Central America (CAFFGS), Haiti and the Dominican Republic (HDRFFGS), and Northwest South America (NWSAFFGS) has yielded suggested improvements to the System, which will benefit the well over 70 FFGS-user countries worldwide. The event, hosted by the Panama Institute of Meteorology and Hydrology (IMHPA) in Panama City from 24 to 28 April, attracted permanent representatives...
The WMO Statement on the State of the Global Climate 2018 report was launched on 28 March at a joint press conference with United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres, United Nations General Assembly President María Fernanda Espinosa Garcés and WMO Secretary-General Petteri Taalas at United Nations headquarters in New York.
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The inaugural WMO State of Global Water Resources 2021, launched in November, provides an...
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WMO applauds Dr Elizabeth Ebert who was awarded in October by the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences & Engineering (ATSE) for innovation and excellence in the field of meteorology. Dr Ebert is a Senior...
Two WMO programmes mark milestone anniversaries in 2022: it is the Associated Programme on Flood Management (APFM) twentieth year and Integrated Drought Management Programme’s (IDMP) tenth. Both have many accomplishments to celebrate.
APFM, a joint WMO and Global Water Partnership (GWP) programme, launched in 2001. Over the last 20 years, it has supported government agencies, international organizations, private companies and academia with scientific guidance materials, tools and pilot...
The WMO Marine Service Course Phase 2 was rolled out for the first time for English-speaking countries in the South-West Pacific (WMO Region V) in the months of August and September. The Marine Services Course assists WMO Members by undertaking a gap analysis in Phase I that identifies their strengths and weaknesses in marine service delivery to users, then works with them in Phase II to address the...
“International meteorological cooperation and maritime safety are cornerstones of WMO and the primary reason for the establishment in 1873 of the International Meteorological Organization, the predecessor to WMO,” stated WMO Deputy Secretary-General Dr Elena Manaenkova. She was addressing the joint meeting of the Sub-Committee of the Advisory Group on the Worldwide Met-Ocean Information and Warning Service with the International Hydrographic Organization (IHO)'s Worldwide Navigational...
WMO experts conducted a mission to Chirou Ti Muoy commune, Cambodia, in May to collect information with local partners on community experience of current early warning systems and preparedness measures for floods in order to develop improvements to both. These improvements will be designed with the National Meteorological and Hydrological Service (NMHS) and disaster management authorities through the Climate Risk and Early Warning Systems (CREWS) Cambodia and Lao...
ENANDES+ will support six Andean countries with their climate adaptation and resilience efforts...
When it comes to early warnings, forecasting systems alone are not enough: Communicating down to the last mile is essential to save lives and property. The WMO Flash Flood Guidance System (FFGS) and the US Agency for International Development Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance (USAID/BHA) recently launched a new activity to improve flash flood early warning communication to that last mile. The Community-Based Flood Management...
