Arab countries will celebrate the Arab Meteorological Day tomorrow

Arab countries will celebrate Arab Meteorology Day tomorrow, at a time when the chairman of the Standing Committee on Arab Meteorology, Hussein Al-Momani, has called for special preparations at the national level and for greater attention in the areas of weather forecasting and monitoring at the governmental and private levels such as the electricity and water sector, tourism businesses and private aviation.
The Moumni call was launched as the world, the region and the Arab region witnessed climate change and increasingly severe and increasingly frequent extreme weather events. Momani said in a press release that the slogan "Meteorology and protection of life and property" was chosen to celebrate this year, to highlight the role of weather facilities in Arab countries in protecting lives and property through airway and provide alerts to all beneficiary sectors and combine their efforts Weather phenomena know no boundaries.
He pointed out that the attribution of 15 September each year to celebrate Arab meteorology was the result of the agreement of the Arab countries at the level of the relevant ministers of meteorological departments on the basis of the proposals of the Arab Committee of meteorology chaired by Jordan.
Al-Momani, who is also the managing director of the Jordan Meteorological Department, said the department is continuously and substantially developing its forecasting and meteorological systems and training its managers to increase the accuracy of weather forecasts, which are have become evident in recent years, to cope with the magnitude of the problems related to meteorological phenomena, including violent ones. The last season of 2019/18 saw many weather events that were the heaviest in 15 years.
He said that the Jordan Meteorological Department had subsequently provided the relevant authorities and the local community with accurate and timely weather and warning bulletins to act in all sectors. It had also provided the State of Palestine with useful information for taking risks related to certain meteorological phenomena in the region.
Momani emphasized that the services provided by the Jordanian Meteorological Department to the economic, services, aviation and agricultural sectors were one of the pillars of the preparation of development plans and plans. future projects and the implementation of future projects in this area.
– Petra.