The National Centre of Meteorology and Seismology, NCMS, is participating in the 44th session of the Typhoon Committee of the World Meteorological Organisation, WMO, and the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific, ESCAP, which was launched yesterday and will continue for five days.

The committee was organised by the Meteorological Directorate of the Ministry of Transportation and Telecommunication of the Kingdom of Bahrain, in cooperation with the regional office of the WMO in West Asia.

In his statement during the session, Abdullah Al Mandous, Director of the NCMS and President of the WMO Regional Association for Asia, RAII, stressed that the typhoons are an extreme weather phenomenon that affects the safety of people and destroys infrastructure. He added that while typhoons cannot be stopped, the course of their movements and the intensity of their winds can be predicted before they happen, limiting their effect and helping to avoid damage.

He explained that the main job of specialist meteorology facilities is to work on predicting weather patterns than issuing timely warnings and early alerts about extreme weather changes, as well as raising the awareness of citizens through media tools.

The goal of the session is to view the latest developments in the study of typhoons and predict their expected occurrence, as well as to review the readiness of meteorology facilities in Asia while remaining constantly aware of the various professional and up-to-date techniques of modelling typhoons and storms and early warning systems for extreme weather, Al Mandous concluded.