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Truly great to be celebrating our ⁦@QAPrizes⁩ award for research in climate & extreme weather, aiding vulnerable communities in the global south with new forecasting & warning systems ⁦University of Leeds⁩ ⁦Earth and Environment at Leeds⁩ ⁦@ICASLeeds⁩ ⁦@SRILeeds⁩

Today's the last day of the final GCRF African SWIFT project meeting. Great to get some snaps from our Kenyan team! @icpac_igad Kenya Met Department 🇰🇪 📸

The @African_Swift, co-led by National Centre for Atmospheric Science colleagues, is delivering a step change in extreme weather forecasting in Africa. "We’re building capacity of local agencies to apply and develop scientific knowledge – and to give communities hazard warnings." says @DougParkerMeteo.

As the final session of our science meeting draws to a close, we'd like to thank all of our partners, speakers and participants for their fantastic contributions since 2017. With 6 more weeks to complete our work, we're looking forward to the lasting legacy of #GCRF African SWIFT

1. Nowcasting is using observations to describe the current weather and predict weather for the next few hours. Kenya Met Department 🇰🇪 through the GCRF African SWIFT project have developed the FASTA: Forecasting African STorms Application. See play.google.com/store/apps/det… to display nowcasting info

The #EOAfrica series of webinars are back for 2022, starting with the 1st on ‘Nowcasting’. Organised with GCRF African SWIFT, participants will get an overview of Nowcasting in #Africa and discuss the next-gen #MTGI1 🛰️'s impact on the continent. Register at: bit.ly/3JZaHgR

Whilst funding for #GCRF African SWIFT comes to an end this week, the suite of skills that have been developed throughout the project will have a lasting impact on the output of weather forecasters across tropical Africa. More on skills development here: africanswift.org/2022/03/28/ski…

The ability to predict heavy rain and floods in Africa is urgently needed. In this paper a freely available nowcasting package, pySTEPS, is used to assess the potential to provide nowcasts of satellite-derived convective rain rate for West Africa. doi.org/10.1175/WAF-D-…

"Nowcasting for Africa", now published GCRF African SWIFT rmets.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/we… . Those in #Kenya can access nowcasts via FASTA App

Let's congratulate our colleagues at University of Nairobi on the recent inauguration of their training lab for weather and climate science, partly supported by the SWIFT-NESST funding tinyurl.com/bj9hud6c This will be used to train students on satellite data interpretation and nowcasting

A storm short-range weather models didn’t see. Breaking down how a storm over Lake Victoria could have been predicted using nowcasting. Currently, there is one tool people in Kenya can use to access real-time storm information: FASTA tinyurl.com/mubyhk3v

New paper finally published!!! The dynamics of dry and wet monsoon MCS formation over West Africa. Thanks to Dr Marian Osei, GCRF African SWIFT, @ICASLeeds, John Marsham, @DougParkerMeteo, Andy Dougill, @JeffGrimes1, Faculty of Environment - University of Leeds, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, GMet: rmets.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/qj…

Great way to start 2023! World Meteorological Organization published Guidelines for #satellite-based #nowcasting in #Africa. 🛰️ #MTG fully included 👨‍🎓 Know-how from GCRF African SWIFT 🌩️ Experience from #African forecasters ✍️Many inputs from EUMETSAT colleagues #EarlyWarning4All library.wmo.int/doc_num.php?ex…

Fantastic to see GCRF African SWIFT nowcasting feeding into these World Meteorological Organization guidelines. Satellite nowcasting can provide urgently needed early warnings for all. @DougParkerMeteo National Centre for Atmospheric Science Andy Dougill

A new set of World Meteorological Organization guidelines for nowcasting in Africa draw on our @African_Swift programme to help improve African weather services. Nowcasting is a process where satellite images can be used to provide severe weather warnings at short notice. ncas.ac.uk/new-internatio…

A new NCAS project in collaboration with several swift partners including UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology World Meteorological Organization also Kulima IDS @kulimaids.bsky.social SA Weather Service Zambia Meteorological Department INAM - National Institute of Meteorology @TyrskyConsult