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63rd World Meteorological Day: Commemoration Ceremony held in Nay Pyi Taw

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23 March 2023
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2023-03-23 20:29

63rd World Meteorological Day celebration took place at the Ministry of Transport and Communications in Nay Pyi Taw on Thursday. Member of the State Administration Council, Deputy Prime Minister, Union Minister Admiral Tin Aung San attended the ceremony and made a speech.

He said the theme for this year’s World Meteorological Day is “The Future of Weather, Climate and Water across Generations”. According to the data of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), the year 2016 was recorded as the warmest year. Moreover, three consecutive year of La Niña event was recorded from 2020 to 2022.

But these La Niña events could not influence the current global warming issue. 2022 survey of WMO found out that the average temperature of the world reached 1.06 degree above the pre-industrial levels. Due to global warming, the glaciers have been melting, and the sea level increased about 24 centimeters than the year 1880, It resulted many island nations to face challenges.

Untimely rain also caused floods while facing droughts and scarcity of water on the other hands. The UN Climate Change Conference, held in Paris in 2015 adopted the resolution to pursue efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels.

The Deputy Prime Minister called for cooperative efforts of all concerned persons to reduce natural disasters due to climate change and to well survive of the next generations. It was followed by screening of video clips on the message sent by the Secretary General of WMO and the climate change events.

The Deputy Prime Minister and the Union Ministers later awarded the winners of first, second and third prize winners of the World Meteorological Day commemorative Article Contest. The attendees then viewed round the displays of booth at the event. In the afternoon session, 9 research papers on Meteorology, Hydrology and Earthquake subjects were read out by the officials from the Ministry of Transport and Communications and the Ministry of Education.

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