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UN Chief Executives Board appeals for more climate action
13.5.2019|Vreme
The leaders of 37 United Nations organizations?called on their member states to "step up ambition and take concrete action" to limit global temperature increase from climate change. Their call for "changes on an unprecedented scale at all levels" was issued from the UN Chief Executives Board (CEB) meeting, which held its biannual session?in Geneva on 9 and 10 May.
Multi-Hazard Early Warning Conference confronts cascading impacts of extreme weather and other natural hazards and of climate change
9.5.2019|Voda
Climate change, population increase, urbanization and environmental degradation are amplifying the impact of extreme weather, water and climate events such as tropical cyclones, floods and extreme heat on growing numbers of people. Improved early warning systems and more coordinated disaster risk reduction are more important than ever before.
Record warm and dry April - Finnish Meteorological Institute
9.5.2019|Vreme
In April, station-specific temperature records were broken in several observation stations of the Finnish Meteorological Institute. In the 21st century, the majority of Aprils have been warmer than the 20th century average.?According to the statistics of the Finnish Meteorological Institute, April in Finland was in many places 2?3.5 degrees higher than the long-term average (1981?2010). In several observation stations, the month was exceptionally warm, meaning that similar circumstances only occur a few times in a century. In the 21st century, 85% of Aprils have been warmer than a typical April in the 20th century.
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Monthly Weather Summary - April 2019 - Kingdom of Bahrain
9.5.2019|Vreme
April 2019 was slightly warmer than normal in temperatures with above average precipitation.?The mean temperature of the month was 25.5?C which is 0.5?C above the long-term normal for April. Note that the highest mean monthly temperature ever recorded in Bahrain for April was 27.6?C which occurred on April 2017.?The mean maximum temperature of the month was 29.8?C which is 0.7?C above the long-term normal. The highest temperature recorded during the month was 37.9?C which occurred on the 17th April at Bahrain International Airport.
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Seamless climate prediction, tipping points feature in lecture on The Climate of Tomorrow
9.5.2019|Vreme
A new World Meteorological Organization (WMO) public science lecture series started on 8 May with a presentation from Thomas Stocker, Professor of Climate and Environmental Physics at the University of Bern on The Climate of Tomorrow: Building the Knowledge for Earth Stewardship.
Reports to Arctic Council confirm rapid warming, ocean acidification
7.5.2019|Vreme
New observations confirm continued rapid warming in the Arctic, driving many of the changes underway in the region, including loss of sea ice and glacier coverage, as well as changes in terrestrial and marine ecosystems. This affects Arctic communities and economies, according to a new?Climate Change Update?from the?Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme (AMAP).?Arctic Ocean acidification is an emerging threat ? with models predicting the possible collapse of some important Arctic commercial and subsistence fisheries, according to?an Arctic Ocean Acidification Assessment. The Arctic and subarctic regions are home to important and valuable fisheries. They yield a tenth of the global commercial catch, and subsistence fisheries provide vital nutritional and cultural services to Arctic residents.
Climate change cited in landmark report on ânatureâs dangerous declineâ
6.5.2019|Vreme
Climate change is one of the contributing factors cited in a new landmark report which says that nature is declining globally at rates unprecedented in human history, and that the about one million species are threatened with extinction.
Disaster preparedness limits toll from Cyclone Fani
6.5.2019|Vreme
Extremely severe cyclonic storm?Fani made landfall close to Puri in Odisha on 3 May, with maximum sustained wind speeds of?180-190 km/h. It tracked?North-North Eastwards and weaken?as it moves towards West Bengal and then on to Bangladesh, according to the Indian Meteorological Department.??Accurate advance forecasts and a huge, well-coordinated disaster risk reduction campaign were credited with keeping the death toll to a minimum.?
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ICT Course for Meteorological Services at the RTC Korea
3.5.2019|Vreme
The Korea Meteorological Administration (KMA) organized an education course on Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) for Meteorological Services at the RCT Korea in Seoul from 14 to 17 April, in which 19 people from 11 NMHSs in Asia and Africa participated.?The course was designed to strengthen the capabilities of developing countries in the field of data collection and exchange, data quality control and numerical prediction models.?As part of the Global Capacity Building Program by the Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA), it has been held every year since 2007 in cooperation with the KMA.?"The KMA's development in weather services building on the advanced ICT can be a good example for developing countries. It is expected ICT advancement could contribute to not only improved meteorological services but disaster risk reduction through this course", said Mr. KIM Jongseok, Administrator of the KMA.
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Extremely severe cyclonic storm Fani hits India
3.5.2019|Vreme
Extremely severe cyclonic storm?Fani made landfall close to Puri in Odisha on 3 May, with maximum sustained wind speeds of?180-190 km/h. It is forecast to track?North-North Eastwards and weaken?as it moves towards West Bengal and then on to Bangladesh, according to the Indian Meteorological Department.
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Extremely severe cyclonic storm Fani nears India
2.5.2019|Vreme
Disaster management authorities in India have mobilized in preparation for extremely severe cyclonic storm Fani, which is forecast to make landfall in Odisha on 3 May as one of the most intense tropical cyclones for 20 years.
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EUROCLIMA+ boosts risk management of droughts and floods in the Andes
2.5.2019|Vreme
A new project called EUROCLIMA+ : droughts and flooding- in the Andes has been launched.
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Another unprecedented tropical cyclone and flooding hits Mozambique
30.4.2019|Vreme
A few weeks after IDAI which wreaked havoc on central Mozambique (and?eastern Zimbabwe), the country is dealing with another unprecedented?event. Tropical Cyclone Kenneth made landfall in northern Mozambique?on 25 April, near the border with Tanzania, in an area where no?tropical cyclone has been observed since the satellite era. There is?no record of two storms of such intensity striking Mozambique in the?same season.?Torrential rainfall in the days following the cyclone worsened the problem and hampered humanitarian operations.
WMO starts public science lecture series
29.4.2019|Vreme
A new World Meteorological Organization (WMO) public science lecture series starts on 8 May with a presentation from Thomas Stocker, Professor of Climate and Environmental Physics at the University of Bern and former Co-chair of Working Group I of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). The presentation is entitled?The Climate of Tomorrow: Building the Knowledge for Earth Stewardship
Another unprecedented tropical cyclone hits Mozambique
26.4.2019|Vreme
A few weeks after IDAI which wreaked havoc on central Mozambique (and?eastern Zimbabwe), the country is dealing with another unprecedented?event. Tropical Cyclone Kenneth made landfall in northern Mozambique?on 25 April, near the border with Tanzania, in an area where no?tropical cyclone has been observed since the satellite era. There is?no record of two storms of such intensity striking Mozambique in the?same season. It has now weakened into a depression.
South Asian Climate Outlook Forum predicts normal monsoon
26.4.2019|Vreme
Normal rainfall is most likely during the 2019 southwest monsoon season (June ? September) over most parts of South Asia, according to the South Asian Climate Outlook Forum (SASCOF).?
SequÃas: Lanzamiento del Proyecto SISSA- Financiación BID
25.4.2019|Vreme
Entre el 24 y el 26 de abril se realiza el lanzamiento del componente BID del proyecto de Dise?o e Implementaci?n de un Sistema de Informaci?n sobre Sequ?as para el sur de Sudam?rica (SISSA), que llevar? adelante el?Centro Regional del Clima para el Sur de Am?rica?del Sur (CRC-SAS).?El encuentro tiene lugar en la sede del BID de Asunci?n, Paraguay, y re?ne a los l?deres del proyecto SISSA, a los directores de los servicios meteorol?gicos nacionales de los pa?ses que integran el CRC-SAS, representantes de agencias de la regi?n, autoridades de gobierno de los pa?ses del cono sur y referentes de organismos no gubernamentales vinculados a la gesti?n del riesgo en el sector agropecuario.
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Roshydromet (Russian Federation): The marine expedition TRANSARCTIC
18.4.2019|Vreme
The expedition "TRANSARCTICA ? 2019, the first stage" precedes the work of the international floating Observatory, planned to be deployed in the framework of the MOSAiC project (The Multi-Disciplinary drifting Observatory for the study of Arctic Climate programme). Taking into account, the scientific and practical results obtained in the expedition will contribute to the successful implementation of the MOSAiC project.
Monthly Weather Summary - March 2019 - Kingdom of Bahrain
15.4.2019|Vreme
March 2019 was slightly cooler than normal in temperatures with below average precipitation and relative humidities.?The mean temperature of the month was 20.8?C which is 0.2?C below the long-term normal for March.?The mean maximum temperature of the month was 24.3?C which is 0.4?C below the long-term normal. The highest temperature recorded during the month was 27.8?C which occurred on the 25th March at Bahrain International Airport but recorded 28.8?C on the same day at Durrat Al Bahrain.
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Global Atmosphere Watch programme turns 30
12.4.2019|Vreme
WMO?s Global Atmosphere Watch (GAW) Programme is marking its 30th anniversary this year. The programme, which embraces about 100 countries, aims at forging an integrated global understanding of atmospheric composition and change. It coordinates observations across local to global scales, driving high quality and high-impact science while co-producing society relevant products and services.
