The UK’s Met Office has partnered with the University of Plymouth to co-design and co-deliver a new training program for early-career meteorologists.

The multimillion-pound Foundation Operational Meteorology Programme will provide early-career meteorologists with a learning and development program suitable for a profession being transformed by climate change, extreme weather and artificial intelligence.

According to the Met Office, the collaboration will also open more diverse routes into the profession, better recognizing students’ previous experience and creating clearer career progression pathways – all enhancing career opportunities and making meteorology more accessible to people from a wider range of backgrounds.

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The Australian Bureau of Meteorology is installing a temporary weather radar in Wyndham, Western Australia, that will provide access to radar imagery from October 2026 after the old radar was destroyed by a fire late last year. The self-contained temporary radar will be in place for up to three years until a new radar is procured and installed.

The radar will provide the same weather information as before, plus Doppler and dual‑polarization capability, which were not available on the old radar. Doppler enables it to measure wind speed and dual-polarization gives extra information which helps with image correction.

Continue reading Bureau of Meteorology to install temporary weather radar to restore network coverage in Wyndham, Western Australia at Meteorological Technology International.

A student on Virginia Tech’s meteorology program is working on a project to improve high-impact flash flood warnings in rural Virginia by studying the density of current National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) rain gauges.

Over the past four years, the region has experienced multiple high-impact flooding events that caused widespread damage and loss of life. However, the defining steep terrain in Appalachia complicates how rainfall is measured and monitored as the NOAA rain gauges have strict placement requirements. They need open, flat land with no nearby trees, which is difficult in a region where there are mountains, valleys and forests.

Continue reading New research to improve flash flood warnings in rural Virginia at Meteorological Technology International.

EWR Radar Systems recently delivered three custom truck-based mobile weather radar systems to NOAA’s National Severe Storms Laboratory. Included in the delivery were one C-band and two X-band E800LP solid-state weather radar systems mounted on purpose-built truck platforms.

According to EWR, its custom mobile radar solutions give end users flexibility in observation location while delivering industry-leading performance and reliability. The truck-based mobile systems are designed for rapid deployment. They are operational in less than 10 minutes without the need for specialized personnel or additional equipment.

For over 20 years, EWR has partnered with customers to develop customized radar solutions tailored to their unique requirements.

Continue reading VIDEO: EWR delivers mobile weather radar systems to NOAA at Meteorological Technology International.

The American Meteorological Society (AMS) has appointed atmospheric scientist Amanda Staudt as its new executive director.

Staudt, who will assume the role in in March 2026, will work with AMS’s members and elected leadership to further the organization’s mission of advancing the atmospheric and related sciences and services for the benefit of society.

Staudt, who previously served as senior director of Climate Crossroads at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, has decades of experience helping translate science into informed decision-making in collaboration with major scientific organizations.

Commenting on the appointed, Staudt said, “I am deeply honored and extremely excited to join the AMS team.

Continue reading Amanda Staudt named executive director of American Meteorological Society at Meteorological Technology International.

The January 2026 issue is now available online! Packed full of news, interviews and features, including:

COVER STORY: Early warning systems: As deadly storms grows stronger, the UN’s Early Warnings for All campaign is racing to connect every person on Earth to life-saving alerts by 2027.

MTWE review: Meteorological Technology World Expo 2025 returned to Vienna, Austria in October 2025, achieving record-breaking attendance in a non-TECO year.

Space weather: Five revolutionary quantum magnetometers have been deployed across to the UK, providing unprecedented protection against space weather threats to critical national infrastructure.

Continue reading In this Issue – January 2026 at Meteorological Technology International.

The winners of the 2025 Global Integrated Flood and Drought Management Youth-Led Projects Competition have been announced, with initiatives in Nigeria and Uganda taking home the crown.

The first winner was GreenQuest: Flood Resilience through Gamification and Community Action (Nigeria), which aims to strengthen flood resilience in three high-risk, low-income communities in Lagos – Makoko, Bariga, and Iwaya – by combining gamification, storytelling and hands-on community engagement.

The project seeks to drive behavioral change and improve preparedness by:

• Educating and empowering youth and community members through interactive, game-based learning on flood preparedness, waste management and early warning systems;
• Reducing flood risk in three highly exposed Lagos communities through nature-based solutions, including rain gardens and permeable pavements;
• Mobilizing youth volunteers to promote proper waste disposal and drainage maintenance through clean-up drives and advocacy campaigns;
• Integrating Indigenous knowledge and local expertise to ensure culturally grounded and locally relevant adaptation strategies.

Continue reading Flood resilience projects in Nigeria and Uganda win 2025 youth-led initiative awards at Meteorological Technology International.

The latest World Meteorological Organization (WMO) El Niño/La Niña update predicts that the La Niña climate pattern may return to affect weather from September onward, although temperatures are still expected to be above average for much of the world.

Neutral conditions (neither El Niño or La Niña) have persisted since March 2025, with sea surface temperature anomalies remaining near average across the equatorial Pacific. However, these conditions may gradually make way for La Niña conditions to emerge in the coming months, potentially starting in September 2025, the update reports.

According to the latest forecasts from the WMO Global Producing Centres for Seasonal Prediction, there is a 55% chance for sea surface temperatures in the equatorial Pacific to cool to La Niña levels, and a 45% chance for them to remain at El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO)-neutral levels during the upcoming September-November 2025 period.

Continue reading WMO predicts return of La Niña but temperatures likely to be above average at Meteorological Technology International.

Measurement technology company Vaisala has launched its New Climate Business with the acquisition of its client Quanterra Systems, a company specializing in atmospheric monitoring of CO2 fluxes.

The new business, which was launched in response to political uncertainty and skepticism around the efficacy of climate initiatives, aims to offer transparency and scientific proof for greenhouse gas emissions.

Fernando Trolia Slamic, the recently appointed head of the New Climate Business, explained, “Without knowing exactly how much greenhouse gas is emitted or sequestered into nature, companies and institutions struggle to know their true climate impact or to communicate facts truthfully to their stakeholders.”

Measuring carbon sinks

Quanterra offers site-specific atmospheric carbon monitoring for nature-based industries such as agri-food and biofuels, as well as public and private research communities, including carbon certification and trading markets.

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New research from the UK’s Met Office has revealed the potential of machine learning-based weather models to revolutionize global seasonal forecasting.

The peer-reviewed paper Skilful global seasonal predictions from a machine learning weather model trained on reanalysis data, published in npj Climate and Atmospheric Science, assesses the viability of applying an ML weather model to global seasonal forecasts, which are vital for understanding global weather patterns.

According to the Met Office, seasonal forecasts – which look at the likely conditions for the next three months – can provide valuable insights for long-term planning and decision making, including for agriculture, water resources and public health.

Continue reading Met Office research shows machine learning can boost seasonal forecasting capabilities at Meteorological Technology International.