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Geneva (AFP) March 16, 2010 African ministers dealing with climate are to gather mid-April in Kenya's capital Nairobi for the first time in an attempt to strengthen crucial weather forecasting, the UN weather agency said Tuesday. Underlining the importance of the conference, the head of the World Meteorological Organisation, Michel Jarraud, said that "many countries in Africa are very vulnerable to climate variability and indeed climate change." The host country of the conference was itself hit last year by a severe drought which wiped out some 40 percent of its maize harvest, said the secretary-general of the WMO. "It's very important that we can explore the best way to strengthen the met services... so that they can support national development," he told journalists. The first Conference of Ministers Responsible for Meteorology in Africa is due to be held from April 12 to 16.
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NASA to launch latest high-tech weather satelliteWashington (AFP) March 3, 2010 The United States is poised to launch Thursday the latest in its family of high-tech meteorological satellites that watch storm development and weather conditions on Earth from high in space. The launch window for the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-P (GOES-P) will open at 6:17 pm (2317 GMT) on Thursday and close an hour later, US space agency NASA said in a statement. ... read more |
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