Additional weather stations, like this one in southern Africa’s Kalahari region, could fill major gaps in global meteorological data dpa picture alliance/Alamy Stock Photo
The US, Spain and Norway pledged more than $20 million for a program aiming to improve weather forecasting in a hundred lower-income countries and small island states.
Weather forecasting depends on reliable meteorological data. But many lower-income countries lack the infrastructure needed to measure and predict the weather. “There are huge data gaps,” says Markus Repnik at the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO). He says many lower-income countries and small island states …
