New member joining the World Weather Information Service

8 February 2010

The Kuwait Meteorological Department (http://www.met.gov.kw/) joined the WWIS in February this year, becoming the 124th Member of WWIS. It provides official weather forecasts for two locations, namely, Kuwait City and Kuwait Airport.

The WWIS website (http://worldweather.wmo.int) is the world's first and only website for official city forecasts. It has a total of eight language versions: English, Arabic, Chinese, Portuguese, Spanish, French, German and Italian. It is managed by the Hong Kong Observatory on behalf of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). Presently, 124 WMO Members supply official weather forecasts for over 1,300 cities to the website. The website also contains climatological data for the cities, which are extremely useful for travel planning.

Official weather forecasts for cities in Kuwait are now available
at the WorldWeather Information Service website
(http://worldweather.wmo.int)