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WMOnews

  1. NOAA says 2012 Atlantic hurricane season will be near normal with 70% chance of 9-15 named storms, 4-8 hurricanes noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2012/20… 7:42 AM May 25th via web
  2. La Niña has ended. Neutral conditions until north hemisphere summer. After that equal chance of neutral or El Niño. wmo.int/pages/mediacen… 7:24 AM May 16th via web
  3. WMO, Uganda Dept Meteorology, Ericsson and MTN launch mobile weather alerts to boost safety of Lake Victoria fishermen wmo.int/pages/mediacen… 6:59 AM May 10th via web
  4. Thanks to EUMETSAT for these satellite images of Europe's unsettled weather in April youtube.com/watch?v=tgmUGn… 7:23 AM May 8th via web
  5. World Weather Information Website Hits One Billion Mark: The World Weather Information Service (WWIS) website ha... bit.ly/J35lNH 4:24 PM Apr 27th via twitterfeed
  6. World Weather Info web tops 1 billion hits. Official forecasts from 131 countries for 1,600 cities. Also on iPhone App. wmo.int/pages/mediacen… 7:14 AM Apr 27th via web
  7. World Bank report on urban flooding launched at WMO to boost disaster risk reduction wmo.int/pages/mediacen… 7:17 AM Apr 25th via web
  8. @cgiarclimate many thanks. very interesting. will follow you more closely 5:46 AM Apr 25th via web in reply to cgiarclimate
  9. More than 39,000 copies of MyWorldWeather iPhone App downloaded. Official weather forecasts for people on the move itunes.apple.com/hk/app/myworld… 5:00 AM Apr 25th via web
  10. WMO and UNCCD heads briefed diplomats on need for proactive drought policies to cut disaster risk before crisis wmo.int/pages/prog/wcp… 8:57 AM Apr 24th via web
  11. South Asian Climate Outlook Forum: overall summer monsoon likely within normal range, though still some uncertainty wmo.int/pages/mediacen… 8:17 AM Apr 24th via web
  12. WMO Hurricane Committee retires Irene from tropical storm list of names: Irene has been retired from the officia... bit.ly/JeS6aN 4:15 PM Apr 18th via twitterfeed
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