The Director of the African Ministerial
Conference on Meteorology (inclusion of Meteorology and precisely weather and climate,
in the established Specialized
Technical Committees of the African
Union, is vital AMCOMET) Secretariat in Geneva, Dr Joseph Romanus Mukabana, has
stressed the inclusion of Weather and Climate Services in STC, reports
NaijaAgroNet.
Dr. Mukabana made this known at the
sideline of the newly inaugurated STC and underscored the importance of
inclusion of Meteorology, saying that Weather and Climate information and
Services provided by the WMO National Meteorological and Hydrological Services
(NMHSs) in the amelioration of impacts of natural disasters caused by Weather
and Climate extremes to the vulnerable communities in Africa.
Mukabana, who doubles as Director of the
World Meteorological Organization (WMO) Office for Africa and Least Developed
Countries (AFLCD), noted that Weather and Climate information and services
provided by the WMO National Meteorological and Hydrological Services (NMHSs)
in the amelioration of impacts of natural disasters caused to the vulnerable
communities in Africa, could not be overlooked.
“The inclusion of
Meteorology and precisely weather and climate, in the established Specialized Technical Committees of the African Union,
is vital,” he declared.
This,
he explained is imperative, considering their importance to human lives in the
region.
He
also expressed the hope that this suggestion by WMO would be considered by STC
to afford Weather and Climate issues assume a
cardinal part of the operational modality of the Union (AU)”, he maintained.
NaijaAgroNet recalled that in April 2010,
the first Conference of Ministers Responsible for Meteorology in Africa,
through the Nairobi Declaration, established the African Ministerial Conference
on Meteorology (AMCOMET) as a high-level policy mechanism for the development
of meteorology and its applications in Africa. AMCOMET is the
inter-governmental authority on Meteorology in Africa.
+Remmy Nweke (ITRealms) in Addis Ababa
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cabled weather stations is a facility using which we can measure weather whether it's of a land or of the sea.It forecasts report about the climate.
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