The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) says that its Hurricane Committee has retired the name Sandy from the official rotating list of Atlantic Basin tropical cyclone names due to the destruction it caused in October last year. CH UNTV
The United Nations World Food Programme has begun a series of airdrops to replenish rapidly diminishing food stocks for more than 100,000 people in South Sudan who have fled fighting in Sudan. WFP
The World Metrological Organization (WMO) said today that the current cold spell in Europe was due to start “easing slowly from next week” and that part of the explanation for the current cold snap was due to a negative Arctic Oscillation. CH UNTV
Vital emergency supplies, including hundreds of thousands of litres of clean water are being delivered to children and families left vulnerable by severe monsoon floods in southern Pakistan. New heavy rains and persistent flood waters are contributing to a worsening disaster, with 5.4 million people now affected, including almost 2.7 million children. UNICEF
Head of the World Meteorological Organization Michel Jarraud today talked about the importance of knowing “where the nuclear particles will go” when washed down by precipitation as the Organization activates its Environmental Emergency Response Mechanism in the aftermath of the earthquake in Japan. WMO