WMO launches online weather presenters’forum
GENEVA, 13 JUNE 2006 – WMO: The World Meteorological
Organization (WMO) has launched an online forum for
weather presenters. The new service is aimed at improving
the overall communication of meteorological forecasts and warnings
to the general public by encouraging weather presenters to
exchange data, pose questions, provide solutions, and discuss presentation
skills and relevant technologies.
WMO Secretary-General, Mr Michel Jarraud, said: «The major goal
of a National Meteorological and Hydrological Service (NMHS) is to
contribute to the safety and well-being of the people and to sustainable
socio-economic development by providing timely and accurate
weather-, climate- and water-related information, forecasts and warnings.
To provide maximum benefits, this information must be communicated
in the most effective and understandable manner possible.
WMO makes significant contributions towards achieving this aim
through its guidelines for public weather services and its international
training activities in presentation and communication skills. WMO
is confident that this forum will assist presenters to carry out further
interactions, allowing them to share knowledge and upgrade their
skills in weather presentations.»
The forum is for use by weather presenters only (password
protected) and can be directly accessed from any browser PC
online.
Weather presenters are an essential bridge between the producers
of forecasts, the public and decision-makers. Forecasts and warnings,
however accurate and timely, only become useful and contribute to
saving life and property when they are properly disseminated and
communicated. Weather presenters are the main and most effective
channel for the transmission of weather forecasts and warnings from
NMHSs to users; in many countries, weather reports are watched or
listened to by more people than any other broadcast.
Weather presenters can access the forum at: www.wmofeed.org.
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For more information please contact:
Mr Mark Oliver, Press Officer, Communications and Public Affairs
Office, World Meteorological Organization. Tel : + 41 (0) 22 730 84 17,
E-mail : moliver@wmo.int
Ms Carine Richard-Van Maele, Chief, Communications and Public
Affairs, WMO.
Tel : + 41 (0) 22 730 83 15. E-mail :
Internet websites : http://www.wmo.int
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