Great way to start 2023!

@WMO published Guidelines for #satellite-based #nowcasting in #Africa.

🛰️ #MTG fully included
👨‍🎓 Know-how from african_swift
🌩️ Experience from #African forecasters
✍️Many inputs from @eumetsat
colleagues

#EarlyWarning4All

https://library.wmo.int/doc_num.php?explnum_id=11482

Two #COP27 decisions relevant to #EarthObservation

🔭 Implement #GCOS
https://unfccc.int/documents/624131
🌪️ #earlywarning4all initiative

New #eumetsat #Meteosat Third Generation (#MTG) 🛰️ is highly relevant for both:
🔭 +20years of systematic 🌍 observations (adding to past 40 years)
🌪️ Great tool for #nowcasting in #Africa

The #ClimateCrisis is intensifying. It is estimated unchecked #ClimateEmergency will cost $178 trillion by 2070. Overlapping natural disasters are becoming more common. We need #EarlyWarning4All, multifaceted #CrisisResponse & a #ClimateSafety mission. https://medium.com/@poet_economist/early-warning-crisis-response-climate-safety-1f582c37da4c
Early warning, crisis response & climate safety - Joseph Robertson - Medium

The climate crisis is rapidly intensifying. The costs of climate impacts are adding up, much faster than reserve financial holdings are prepared to withstand. It is estimated unchecked climate change…

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