The 6th National Climate Outlook forum was held today in Belmopan. There were a number of topics discussed and a number of presentations related to weather patterns, interpreting the climate, and about the very important and useful products that the Met service provides. We dropped by and found out more.
Ronald Gordon - Climatologist
"It is a consultation between us, the met service who are the climate providers and the users which are many stakeholders, agricultural sector, the health sector, disaster management, tourism and so on. The purpose of this forum is actually for us to consult with these, our users so we can enhance products that we offer. It all comes as part of the global framework for climate services which is being promoted by the World Met Organization."
"At the met service we provide several different products in terms of outlooks. We do a one month forecast for rainfall, for temperature, we do a 3 month outlook for rainfall and temperature, we do drought monitoring, we do agro-metrological forecast so what I wanted to do in terms of presentation is to explain the products to our users so they can interpret what we are providing to them so that we they can improve their decisions in terms of planning for whatever the outcome will be."
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