AccuWeather has announced it is expanding its free weather warnings services to US hospitals, medical facilities and public health agencies due to high demand as more than 150 medical facilities signed on to the pilot program launched initially in the hardest hit states impacted by the Coronavirus. 

The AccuWeather SkyGuard severe weather warning service helps reduce weather-related risks to vulnerable, temporary structures established for Coronavirus testing and triage.  

The specialized version of the warning service includes advanced warnings for the threat of lightning, wind gusts, flash flooding and tornadoes impacting temporary Coronavirus testing and triage sites.   

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China Meteorological Administration (CMA) have launched a new version of National Meteorological Center (NMC) website, forecasting precipitation in Africa. 

Previously, NMC’s precipitation forecast was confined to Asia, Europe, North America and Oceania. Since November 2019, NMC has overcome a series of technical problems like artificial integrated correction, MICAPS forecasting and product dissemination tool update to facilitate forecasting operations of precipitation across the African continent.  

The website went live following 18 months of trials, users can now log on and access meteorological prediction information like quantifiable precipitation and severe weather forecasts for the next 24 to 84 hours.  

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The shipping industry has more options to maximize cost-effective shipping with the latest version of DTN SPOS (Ship Performance Optimization System).  

SPOS optimizes shipping routes taking into consideration sea conditions such as wind, swell, wave size, currents and other weather elements. 

The on-board platform comes with a route network update that includes increased network density enabling greater ability to create optimized routes through open waters and increased routing options within restricted waters. 

In addition, the update includes scrubber attributes that complements the new fuel types in further support of IMO2020. This enables full reporting capabilities available through SPOS. 

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Weather technology company, ClimaCell has released its more powerful global weather API that includes a new data layer for pollen levels. 

In addition, the newly designed UI offers specific data models for road risk, wildfires, and air quality, features In-depth customization to generate personalized weather insights for specific businesses and map layer visualizations for better UX. 

Effie Arditi, chief product officer at ClimaCell, says, “We’ll continue to build our API to serve developers building enterprise-level applications on our weather platform. We also want everyone to be able to utilize our API which is why we’re offering tiers designed around the developer experience, with a deep emphasis on ease of use, speed, scale, and documentation.” 

The API will continue to be updated with new features over the coming weeks including a weather indicator for hail. 

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Intellisense Systems, provider of environmental sensing solutions, introduces the MWS–C600, the third product in Intellisense’s new Commercial Series of Micro Weather Sensors (MWS).  

The C600 is an all-in-one weather sensor with processing, solar power, communications, and meteorological sensors, all integrated into a portable unit for small airstrips and heliports. 

The included lidar ceilometer, the smallest in the world, measures cloud height to 10,000 ft, giving users an additional critical parameter to support flight operations. 

The C600 transmits environmental measurements over cellular LTE-M communications to support cloud-based data logging and instant access to 28 meteorological conditions and parameters.

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MicroStep-MIS, based in St. Petersburg, will soon open the Forecasting Center, the aim of which will be the generation of specialized weather forecasts. 

Forecasts will be produced using global numerical weather forecasting and WRF models as well as satellite imaginary. 

The center will be headed by Alla Shumikhina, a meteorologist with 13 years of experience in the field of hydrometeorological services. 

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The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) is concerned about the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the quantity and quality of weather observations and forecasts, as well as atmospheric and climate monitoring. 

WMO’s Global Observing System serves as a backbone for all weather and climate services for 193 WMO member states and territories. It provides observations on the state of the atmosphere and ocean surface from land-, marine- and space-based instruments. This data is used for the preparation of weather analyses, forecasts, advisories and warnings. 

WMO secretary-general, Petteri Taalas, says, “National Meteorological and Hydrological Services continue to perform their essential 24/7 functions despite the severe challenges posed by the Coronavirus pandemic.  

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Meteorological equipment specialist, Biral, has launched its new Lightning Works software program to work with its BTD-200 lightning warning system. 

In combination the system sends warning email and SMS text messages when thunderstorm activity is detected and when it clears. 

The system comprises a lightning detector which is placed outside, either on its tripod mount or permanently installed, whilst a PC located indoors runs the supplied Lightning Works software. 

Lightning Works Messenger has built-in language support for eight languages and runs on current Microsoft PC and server operating systems. It can be installed on the same computer as either a Lightning Works client or server, or any other computer on the same local network.  

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DTN RoadMaster has introduced new map layers that precisely forecast the condition on any part of the road network for enhanced maintenance scheduling.  

The new layers allow users to view a route-based forecast, such as the hourly surface temperatures and road conditions, and the daily lowest surface temperatures and worst road conditions across a specific maintenance area. 

The new feature enhances the RoadMaster multilayer map, which currently displays RWIS measurements, camera and satellite images, weather maps and precipitation radar for areas scheduled to be worked upon.  

Road weather forecasts can be delivered up to eight days in advance. 

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The European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) is organising a series of seminars given by international experts to explore aspects of the use of machine learning in weather prediction and climate studies. 

The first will take place on April 28 and will be live-streamed via the ECMWF website. Sherman Lo and Ritabrata Dutta from the University of Warwick will present a statistical methodology to predict precipitation at 0.1° resolution using lower-resolution model fields of air temperature, geopotential, specific humidity, total column water vapour and wind velocity. 

On June 9, Annalisa Bracco from the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at the Georgia Institute of Technology will talk about spatiotemporal complexity and time-dependent networks in mid- to late Holocene simulations. 

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