Seasonal Climate supplement

Mar 06, 2017

MARCH TO MAY 2017 SEASONAL RAINFALL OUTLOOK OVER UGANDA

GENERAL OVERVIEW OF METEOROLOGICAL SERVICES IN UGANDA

The Uganda National Meteorological Authority (UNMA) under the Ministry of Water and Environment was established by ACT 2012 of Parliament. The Authority went into effect on 24th January 2014.

The Vision is "being a center of excellent on weather and climate services for sustainable development of Uganda".

The Mission is "to contribute to the overall national development through provision of quality, customerfocused, cost-effective and timely information for weather services to all users".

The Overall Goal is "to improve technical and institutional capacity for providing weather and climate information, prediction products and services, early warning system, and related services for sustainable development in Uganda".

UNMA is the Government's authoritative voice on weather and climate. It is mandated to install and maintain weather observations and monitoring equipments, monitor weather and climate, exchange meteorological data, information and meteorological products and issue weather and climate advisories to all sectors of the economy in particular and to international partners in general.

As per its mandate, UNMA provides critical services to different sectors of the economy including the aviation industry, air defence, environmental monitoring, water resources management, agriculture, transport and communication as well as tourism and disaster management among others. This mandate has become increasingly pivotal at this time when human kind is faced with the increasing negative impacts of climate change where the poor among our communities are expected to be affected most.  CLICK HERE FOR MORE

 

 

 

 

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