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Extreme weather: UN global early warning initiative ‘fast-tracked into action’

·March 22, 2023·3 min read

UN chief António Guterres convened an Advisory Panel of top UN agency officials which met for the first time to inject more “political, technical and financial clout to ensure that Early Warnings for All becomes a reality for everyone, everywhere”, said WMO in a press release. Tuesday’s panel included development...

Amid ‘spy balloon’ controversy, WMO highlights key role of weather balloons in climate monitoring

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·February 18, 2023·2 min read

On the heels of recent news reports about Canada and the United States shooting down several flying objects, including an alleged Chinese ‘spy balloon’, inside their borders, WMO points out that weather balloons provide just a tiny fraction of the millions of observations gathered worldwide daily. On Thursday, US President...

WMO releases ‘tell-tale signs’ of extreme weather conditions around the world

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·December 24, 2022·3 min read

The clear need to do much more to cut greenhouse gas emissions was again underscored throughout events in 2022, said the UN weather agency, advocating for strengthened climate change adaptation, including universal access to early warnings. “This year we have faced several dramatic weather disasters which claimed far too many...

New UN weather report ‘a chronicle of chaos’: UN chief |

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·November 6, 2022·2 min read

The provisional 2022 State of the Global Climate study outlines the increasingly dramatic signs of the climate emergency, which include a doubling of the rate of sea level rise since 1993, to a new record high this year; and indications of unprecedented glacier melting on the European Alps. The full...