According to the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), all significant global climate records were surpassed in 2018, and the outlook for 2024 is bleak. The organization's chief issued a statement of particular concern regarding ocean temperatures and diminishing sea ice on Tuesday, March 19. According to the
Caribbean leaders recently gathered in Barbados in a bid to support the initiative to invest in an effective early warning system. Known as the Early Warnings for All (EW4ALL), this initiative aims to call for "investment across disaster risk knowledge, observations and forecasting, preparedness and response,
UN NEWS—From the Amazon to the Andes and the snowy depths of Patagonia, extreme weather and climate change are causing mega-drought, extreme rainfall, deforestation and glacier melt across the Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) region, according to a UN report published on Friday. In its State
UN NEWS—UN weather experts said on Thursday that they’re “actively looking” into a possible record temperature for Continental Europe of 48.8 Celsius (119.8 Fahrenheit) near the town of Syracuse in Sicily, amid devastating wildfires in Mediterranean countries and Russia. The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said that
UN News - “All indications” suggest that the extreme temperature reading of 54.4 degrees Celsius recorded in California’s Death Valley on Sunday, is legitimate, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said on Tuesday. “The weather station at Furnace Creek in Death Valley, California, reported a temperature of
