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Annual lightning report 2020-2021: executive summary - India Meteorological Department (IMD)
13.7.2021|Vreme
The annual lightning report 2020-2021 contains a mapping of entire lightning strikes over India and all 37 states and union territories along with its impacts and detailed analysis. The report is of extremely high value and it is very useful for disaster management authorities/departments at the National and state level that is NDMA and SDMAs, all the scientific institutions involved in weather and lightning for understanding the hazard, generation of early warning and solutions to lightning, pulmonologists, weather scientists, disaster management professionals, rural and urban development...
Alliance for Hydromet Development: Close the Gap
9.7.2021|Vreme
The international community has issued a rallying call for greater investments in weather forecasts, early warning systems, and climate services ? known as hydromet ? to boost climate change adaptation and resilience to extreme weather.
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said the first Hydromet Gap report ?tells us how far we need to go to ensure all people have access to accurate, timely weather and climate information.?
?But for accurate forecasts, we need reliable weather and climate data. Today, large gaps remain in basic weather data, particularly in Small Island...
New product from IMGW-PIB: High-resolution forest fire danger forecasting system
9.7.2021|Vreme
Since the beginning of the new year, IMGW-PIB has released a new testing system for fire danger forecasting dedicated to forest areas.?Forecasts are made for the whole of Poland, on a grid with a spatial resolution of 2.5 x 2.5 km. They are prepared once a day at 12:00 UTC, with a time advance of 24 and 48 hours.?This is the first forest fire danger forecasting system in Poland with high spatial resolution and such a long forecast period.?The forest fire danger forecasting system was developed at the Meteorological Analysis and Long-Range Forecasts Office within the structures...
Hydromet Investments save lives and make economic sense
8.7.2021|Vreme
First Hydromet Gap Report calls for scaled-up action
Geneva, 8 July 2021 (WMO) - An estimated 23,000 lives per year could be saved potential annual benefits of at least US$ 162 billion could be realized by improving weather forecasts, early warning systems, and climate information ? known as hydromet, according to a new report.
The first Hydromet Gap Report, launched on 8 July, tells us how far we have to go to tap the benefits of effective weather and climate services. It presents the challenges of the complex global and local undertaking required and proposes priority actions to scale...
North America heatwave almost impossible without climate change
8.7.2021|Vreme
The record-breaking heatwave in parts of the US and Canada at the end of June would have been virtually impossible without the influence of human-caused climate change, according to a rapid attribution analysis by an international team of leading climate scientists. Climate change, caused by greenhouse gas emissions, made the heatwave at least 150 times more likely to happen.
Pacific Northwest areas of the US and Canada saw temperatures that broke records by several degrees, including a new all-time Canadian temperature record of 49.6?C (121.3?F) in the village of Lytton - well above the...
Polovična zapora Celovške ceste v Ljubljani
8.7.2021|Promet
V Ljubljani, bo v avgustu zaradi obnove vozišča na Celovški cesti, promet potekal po enem pasu proti centru in obratno (iz centra).
Early morning orbit meteorological satellite Fengyun-3E is successfully lifted off - China Meteorological Administration
7.7.2021|Vreme
On 7:28 a.m. 5 July (BJT), 2021, Fengyun-3E meteorological satellite (hereafter referred to as FY-3E satellite) was successfully lifted off at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, Gansu province. It is the first early morning orbit meteorological satellite for civil use in the world.?FY-3E satellite will fill in the vacancy of global early morning orbit observing, joining Chinese FY-3C and FY-3D satellite to realize coverage of early morning, morning and afternoon orbits. They will provide global data coverage for numerical weather prediction (NWP) at 6-hour interval, and effectively...
Monthly Weather Summary - June 2021 - Kingdom of Bahrain
7.7.2021|Vreme
June 2021 was slightly warmer than normal in temperatures with above average Wind Speed.?The mean temperature of the month was 34.1?C which is 0.1?C above the long-term normal for June. Note that the highest mean monthly temperature for June was 36.3?C recorded in 2019.?The mean maximum temperature of the month was 38.2?C which is 0.4?C below the long-term normal. Note that the highest mean monthly maximum for June was 40.9?C recorded in 2019. ?
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WMO issues Airborne Dust Bulletin
7.7.2021|Voda
WMO has issued its annual Airborne Dust Bulletin on the incidence and hazards of sand and dust storms in 2020. The impacts on health, the environment and economies have been highlighted once again this year as massive sand plumes have darkened skies and affected air quality in many parts of Africa, Asia, the Americas and Europe and travelled hundreds of miles over the Atlantic.
Every year, around 2,000 million tons of dust enters the atmosphere. Much of this is a natural process, but a large part of it is the result of poor water and land management.
Forecasts have improved greatly...
Northern hemisphere wildfire season flares up
6.7.2021|Vreme
The 2021 Boreal wildfire season in the Northern Hemisphere is flaring?up, with a large and increasing number of intense fires; most notably across northeastern Russia, western Canada and the western United States.
High temperatures and severe drought during recent weeks may be contributing to a higher number of more intense fires.
There is growing evidence that climate change increases the frequency and/or severity of fire weather around the world. Land management alone cannot explain recent increases in wildfires, according to a 2020 update from internationally acclaimed...
WMO verifies one temperature record for Antarctic continent and rejects another
1.7.2021|Vreme
New rapid response team will provide guidance on reported extremes
GENEVA, 1 July 2021 (WMO) - The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) has recognized a new record high temperature for the Antarctic continent of 18.3? Celsius on 6 February 2020 at the Esperanza station (Argentina). However, it rejected an even higher temperature, of 20.75?C, which was reported on 9 February 2020 at an automated permafrost monitoring station (Brazil) on Seymour Island.
The previous record for the Antarctic region (continental, including mainland and surrounding islands] was 17.5?C (63.5?F) recorded on...
IPCC confirms release date and approval session details for next report
30.6.2021|Vreme
GENEVA, 30 June?? The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) will release its next report, the Working Group I contribution to the Sixth Assessment Report (AR6), on 9 August 2021 following an approval session held remotely to consider the document from 26 July to 6 August.
It will be the first time that the IPCC has conducted a virtual approval session for one of its reports, although it has held plenary sessions of the Panel and IPCC Bureau remotely to conduct other urgent business on several occasions during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Working Group I assesses the physical...
Flood on the maps - National Hydrological Protection Center - Poland
29.6.2021|Vreme
According to the WHO, since 1998, more than 2 billion people worldwide have been affected by floods ? directly or indirectly. The European Environment Agency reports that between 1980 and 2017, the economic losses due to floods in the European Union alone amounted to nearly 160 billion Euro. Besides the construction and development of flood prevention infrastructure, the risk management of floods is an important tool for combating floods. The most important element for assessing and verifying flood risks are the flood hazard maps and the flood risk maps, developed as part of the project by...
Global observing system needs sustainable investments
29.6.2021|Vreme
More than 100 participants representing 28 potential funders and 21 observer institutions attended the second funders? forum of the Systematic Observations Financing Facility (SOFF) on the 28th of June to advance discussions on on the timeline and costs and benefits.
The forum built on the discussions of the first funders? forum, and addressed key issues that delegations raised during the first forum and in subsequent consultations. It focused on clarifying the critical role of observations in the meteorological value chain and the SOFF value proposition; the proposed institutional and...
June ends with exceptional heat
29.6.2021|Vreme
An exceptional and dangerous heatwave is baking the Northwestern USA and Western Canada in areas which are more synonymous with the cold. Temperatures have reached more than 45.0?C on consecutive days, with extremely warm nights in between.
This unprecedent event has caused many fatalities and is having multiple major impacts: ?heat stress in people, animals and vegetation; air quality (pollutants due to hot stable air); forest fire risk; possibility of landslides caused by glacier melting in mountains; damages and malfunctioning of infrastructure and transport systems not prepared...
Sharp decrease in CO2 emissions of new cars in 2020
29.6.2021|Okolje
The European Environment Agency (EEA) has published its provisional data about the emissions of newly registered passenger cars and vans in Europe in 2020. For cars, the data show a 12 % decrease in average carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, compared with 2019. Average van emissions also decreased slightly, by about 1.5 %.
The western regions of Libya have been affected by a desert depression causing severe heat wave since Monday 21 June - National Meteorological Centre - Libya
28.6.2021|Vreme
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WMO awards IMO prize to Prof. In-Sik Kang
28.6.2021|Vreme
The World Meteorological Organization has honoured Prof. In-Sik?Kang, Professor Emeritus at Seoul National University (SNU), Republic of Korea, with its top award for his outstanding contributions to climate science.
WMO?s Executive Council selected Prof. Kang as winner of the 66th IMO Prize. Established in 1955 and named after the predecessor of the WMO, the International Meteorological Organization (IMO), it is awarded every year?to individuals in recognition of their lifetime work in the field of meteorology, hydrology, climatology or related fields.
The award cites Prof....
WMO Executive Council endorses unified data policy
25.6.2021|Voda
Free exchange of Earth system data vital to strengthen observing system and meet increased demand for services in era of climate change
GENEVA, 24 June 2021 - In a milestone decision, the World Meteorological Organization?s Executive Council has endorsed a unified policy on the international exchange of?Earth system data to help its Members meet the explosive growth in demand for weather, climate and water services as the world grapples with the dual challenges of climate change and the increasing frequency of extreme weather events.
The draft data policy resolution, which must be...
