The UK Met Office has launched an aviation weather platform designed to support the needs of the aviation industry as it rapidly evolves.

The Met Office Aeronautical Visualisation Service (MAVIS) is said to be the most significant modernization of the UK’s regulated aviation weather services in more than two decades. Bringing together multiple legacy platforms into a single, intuitive interface, it can support traditional operations ranging from crewed aircraft through to spacecraft missions.

The platform was developed in close collaboration with the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) and shaped using user research and feedback from airlines, airports, pilots, emergency responders, offshore helicopter operators, balloonists and the general aviation community, to ensure it reflects the needs of the entire sector.

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Singapore is strengthening its aviation meteorological capabilities and regional collaboration as changing weather patterns increasingly disrupt flight operations, airport capacity and aviation safety.

The Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore (CAAS) and the National Environment Agency (NEA) have jointly established a new National Aviation Meteorological Programme to improve the prediction, mitigation and management of weather-related impacts on air traffic control, airlines and airport operations. The initiative brings together aviation and meteorology experts alongside industry stakeholders to build research, development and operational capabilities.

The program responds to a sharp rise in weather-driven disruptions. Between January and November 2025, 55 flights were diverted from Changi Airport due to adverse weather, compared with nine during the same period in 2024.

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As turbulence concerns continue to grow due to ongoing global warming, All Nippon Airways (ANA) has become the first airline in the world to implement BlueWX’s AI-based turbulence prediction service developed.

The turbulence prediction model, developed using deep learning techniques and a decade of turbulence data, has an 86% accuracy rate. Operational trials involving 2,500 ANA pilots confirmed its reliability, leading to its formal integration into ANA’s weather data infrastructure.

“For airlines, turbulence prediction is a long-standing challenge,” said Hiroyuki Kometani, ANA’s executive vice president of operation division, “At ANA, we have successfully developed this capability in collaboration with BlueWX, utilizing the latest AI and deep learning techniques.

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The Somali Civil Aviation Authority (SCAA) has implemented a new weather monitoring and forecasting system based on a Meteosat Third Generation (MTG) satellite to bolster its meteorological capabilities and improve the safety of its civil aviation sector.

Modernizing Somalia’s forecasts

According to SCAA, the new system marks a significant step toward enhancing the use of modern technology in civil aviation in the country. The organization also states that the modernization of its weather forecasting system places Somalia among the leading African countries adopting this meteorological technology.

Global implications

Ahmed Hassan, director general of the SCAA, commented, “This change is not just a modernized tool but a strategic achievement for the Somali nation in the areas of climate change adaptation, aviation security/safety and leadership in the civil aviation service on the African continent.”

In related news, the first ever geostationary satellite to provide 3D profiles for temperature and humidity for Europe has been launched, in the latest phase of a multi-year project by EUMETSAT.

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NASA and the US Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) have partnered to launch the Injected Smoke and Pyrocumulonimbus Experiment (INSPYRE) field experiment, a multi-year collaborative effort aimed at improving predictive weather modeling through detailed analysis of wildfire-induced atmospheric behavior. The project is led by NRL and funded by NASA.

Pyrocumulonimbus clouds

The scientists will look to better understand pyrocumulonimbus clouds, or pyroCbs, which are byproducts of the wildfires that are increasingly common around the world.

“These are thunderstorms that develop directly over large and intense wildfires,” said David Peterson, PhD, a meteorologist with NRL. “They act like giant chimneys, rapidly accelerating smoke particles high into the atmosphere.

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Two payloads have successfully flown a four-week test aboard a World View high-altitude balloon with support from NASA’s Flight Opportunities program.

Compact 3D imaging sensor

Reaching altitudes up to 81,000ft (24,688m), the World View high-altitude balloon carried the CubeSounder weather forecasting technology developed by researchers at Arizona State University in Tempe. Data collected during the 28-day flight is helping to advance this technology. CubeSounder collected data to help validate its high-altitude performance. CubeSounder is a compact 3D imaging sensor that collects atmospheric temperature and humidity data as 3D images for weather forecasting in a smaller package than current atmospheric sounders.

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The National Institute of Standards and Technology has awarded the Oklahoma Aerospace Institute for Research and Education (OAIRE) US$5.5m to research how weather impacts urban air mobility aircraft.

Urban air mobility weather study

Operating under the umbrella of The Innovation Foundation at Oklahoma State University (OSU), OAIRE received the funding in connection with the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2024. These funds will contribute to research focused on the observation and investigation of low-atmosphere weather systems’ impact on unmanned aerial systems (UAS) and advanced air mobility aircraft.

“This funding will provide enormous benefit to Oklahoma and the nation by facilitating the safe and sustainable integration of small unmanned aircraft systems and advanced air mobility into the national airspace system,” said Kayse Shrum, president of OSU.

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Vaisala has signed a contract with the Indonesian Agency for Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics (BMKG) to supply airport weather systems and equipment to modernize 14 Indonesian airports. The contract’s value is approximately €25m (US$28m) – making it the largest-ever aviation weather project for Vaisala.

€25m aviation weather project

The project will be funded through the Finnish Public Sector Investment Facility (PIF), an instrument governed by the Finnish Ministry for Foreign Affairs and applicable to projects that comply with the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals in developing countries. It is planned to run for three years and begin in 2025 once the PIF loan agreement is completed and the Finnish Ministry of Foreign Affairs has given final approval for the funding.

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The secretary-general of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), Juan Carlos Salazar, and the secretary-general of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), Prof. Celeste Saulo, have signed an update to the agreement that strengthens the collaboration between the two organizations.

Aviation climate impact

ICAO and WMO – both specialized agencies of the United Nations – have maintained formal working arrangements since 1954. After 70 years of productive cooperation, this latest update, formalized through a memorandum of understanding, outlines the framework for continued coordination, cooperation and collaboration in aeronautical meteorology and other domains. These include the environmental impacts of aviation and the effects of climate change on aviation.

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The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has purchased US$465,000 of aircraft-based weather sensors and related technology from Flyht Aerospace Solutions to help the US National Weather Service (NWS) improve weather forecasting and warnings.

Aircraft-based observation technology

The order is part of a September 2023 agreement. As part of this agreement, NOAA is integrating packages of Flyht-WVSS-II sensors with Flyht’s Certus SatCom and AFIRS Edge multi-channel WQAR systems for real-time data transmission. In addition to the hardware, Flyht will deliver aircraft-based observations (ABOs) throughout the flight phases, including during ascent, descent and while en route.

The initial hardware purchase, funded by FY2023 appropriations, is slated for installation by late 2024 or early 2025.

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