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World Meteorological Organization

Weather and climate are truly international and global issues. All weather phenomena, large and small, are interconnected in some way regardless the borders of nations. For example, read about the NOAA study on the effects of African droughts and dust on the weather in the Caribbean. Therefore, the businesses of weather prediction and climate change, for example, require global cooperation and coordination.

The international organization coordinating most of the global weather and climate related activities is the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). It is a United Nations specialized agency and has its headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland. Under the WMOs Regional Programme, the world is divided in six regional associations:

• RA I Africa

• RA II Asia

• RA III South America

• RA IV North and Central America and the Caribbean

• RA V South-West Pacific

• RA VI Europe

Caribbean states and territories belong to two regional associations, to RA III and RA IV.

The Regional Office (Asunción, Paraguay) of WMO for the Americas and the Subregional Office (San José, Costa Rica) for North America, Central America and the Caribbean cover the Greater Caribbean countries. These offices publish jointly a bulletin (Regional Newsletter, in Spanish and English) dealing with actual regional issues.

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