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              The Uganda National Meteorological Authority (UNMA) invited the WIMEA-ICT Project to a one-day hands-on training on the Weather Data Repository (WDR) and Weather Information Dissemination System (WIDS) to improve staff skills in data and dissemination of weather information. This training was carried out at UNMA on the 19th […]

WIMEA ICT presents the Dissemination system, Data Repository, Rain gauge redesign and AWS monitoring System to Uganda National Meteorological Authority. On 10th August 2017 student teams doing internship with the WIMEA-ICT project made presentations to a team of Directors, meteorologists and Engineers from Uganda National Meteorological Authority (UNMA). The presentations focused on additional functionality to […]

On the 21st of March 2017, WIMEA team embraced the World Meteorological Day on a theme entitled “Understanding the clouds” at Bugema University. Exhibitions about the project and different activities were presented to the Stakeholders and they were amazed at the direction the Project is taking and how beneficial it will be to the country […]

Climate change is gender neutral as it affects both men and women. It’s effect on women is evident. For instance, it increases food insecurity and compounds access to water challenges, which roles are the responsibility of rural women. The effective handling of climate change in general and weather information management particularly requires strategies which consider […]

In the WIMEA-ICT project we recognize that the media plays a very important role in informing the general public. We are also cognizant of the fact that if all the useful information we unearth during our research investigations remains inaccessible by the stakeholders, there will hardly be any impact on society. We are therefore taking […]

Are the people of East Africa going to start reaping the benefits of this Weather Information Management project any time soon? Yes, the people of East Africa will start reaping from the WIMEA-ICT soon, particularly through the work of the eight PhD candidates from Makerere University, Dar-es- Salaam Institute of Technology and University of Juba, […]

The idea of improving weather information management in East Africa was born in 2008, following a disappointing farming season. I, like many Ugandans, had grown accustomed to the traditional rainfall patterns which were adhered to by our forefathers. During that season, I planned to grow maize since it was the maize season. Unfortunately for me, […]

The WIMEA-ICT project has been in implementation for about two years now and has registered progress in several areas. Seven PhD students are making headway in their studies and we are leveraging access to interested entities to extend the project’s outreach. It is noteworthy that two prototypes of automatic weather stations have been designed with […]

The Geophysical Institute, University of Bergen in Norway hosted the third Annual General Meeting of the WIMEA ICT project from December 7 to December 11, 2015. This meeting had participants from NORAD (project sponsors), the University of Bergen, Makerere University, Dar-es-Salaam Institute of Technology and University of Juba. The eight PhD students sponsored by the […]

Location to install the AWS prototype ready for benchmarking, On March 5, WIMEAICT Project visited the JNIA weather station, at the airport for purposes of inspecting the site to be installed with AWS prototype ready for benchmarking. Some of the observations made were: The AWOS (Automatic Weather Observation System) is not functioning and so they are […]