World Meteorological Organization’s Post

🌍 Every year, around 2,000 million tons of dust enters the atmosphere, darkening skies and harming air quality in regions that can be thousands of kilometers away, and affecting economies, ecosystems, weather and climate. Much of this is a natural process, but a large part of it is the result of poor water and land management. 📈 Monitoring and forecasting accuracy has improved in recent years due to the progress of numerical models and observation systems. The WMO Sand and Dust Storm Warning Advisory and Assessment System (SDS-WAS), set up in 2007, strives to improve warnings through dedicated regional centres and combines research and operational work. 🌾 It is not all bad news. The long-range transport of sand and dust across oceans is also a valuable source of nutrients and important for the international management of fisheries. 🗣️ #SDSDay

📊 We cannot manage what we don’t measure. 🌍 The Global Greenhouse Gas Watch aims to support WMO Members in mitigation actions undertaken to implement the Paris Agreement. It seeks to fill critical information gaps and provides an integrated, operational framework that brings all space-based and surface-based observing systems under one roof, as well as modelling and data assimilation capabilities in relation to greenhouse gas monitoring. 🔗 Sign up for our quarterly newsletter to stay informed about Global Greenhouse Gas Watch's latest progress, significant events, and crucial updates from the community. https://lnkd.in/ecFH8q-r 📹 European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts

Heat waves? Hurricanes? Droughts? This weather forecast from Trinidad and Tobago and #WeatherKids worldwide calls for #ClimateAction! Sign UNDP's climate pledge today for the children in your lives: https://lnkd.in/d6cZbe7m

🌡️ It was the hottest June on record for the globe and the 13th month in a row to set a monthly temperature record. 🌍 These latest figures highlight that we will be exceeding the 1.5°C level on a temporary basis with increasing frequency. However, it is important to stress that temporary breaches do not mean the 1.5 °C goal is permanently lost because this refers to long-term warming over at least two decades. ⚠️We need urgent and concerted #ClimateAction to slash greenhouse gas emissions and flatten the curve. What we have seen in the past 12 months is a foretaste of the future. 📹 United Nations News

🌐Join us for the next session in our webinar series, focused on Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence in Weather Prediction! 🎧 There will be simultaneous English-Spanish interpretation.

🛰️ EUMETSAT just released pre-operational data from Europe’s first satellite-borne lightning imager; the images are striking! ⚡ 📷 Data from #MTGI1's Lightning Imager provides weather forecasters in Europe, Africa, and beyond with unprecedented insights into storm activity. 🌩️ This is set to improve the monitoring and prediction of severe weather, offering crucial support to communities and industries like aviation. 🌪️ By observing abrupt changes in lightning activity, forecasters will be able to better predict storm development and severity. 🌍 This animation shows the development and movement of thunderstorms over Europe.

🌪️ Sand and dust storms occur when strong winds lift sand and dust from dry soils into the atmosphere, transporting particles over vast distances. They impact climate, weather, and ecosystems and harm human health, agriculture, transportation, and solar energy. At the same time, they also supply nutrients to ocean ecosystems.