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The ECMWF Council discussed future priorities, including collaboration with Member States, advances in forecasting and AI, investments in computing, and progress towards a more connected European meteorological infrastructure.

New research shows how the frequency, severity, and duration of heat stress have accelerated and intensified across the globe since around 1970, affecting health and livelihoods.

ECMWF becomes the first weather forecasting centre to assimilate cloud radar data, improving how clouds are represented in global forecasts.

The ECMWF Annual Report 2025 highlights a year of significant achievements, including the operationalisation of the AIFS, the opening of the Real-time Catalogue, and ECMWF’s 50th anniversary.

ECMWF expands its Machine Learning Project, welcoming Latvia, Slovenia and Morocco and strengthening collaboration across national meteorological services to advance machine learning in weather forecasting.

The appointments strengthen ECMWF’s leadership at a time of rapid scientific and digital transformation, in response to increasing demands for integrated, end-to-end capabilities from Member and Co-operating States. The move reinforces the Centre’s ability to deliver world‑leading science and operational weather, environmental and climate services, for and with its Member and Co-operating States.

ECMWF’s next-generation ocean and sea-ice reanalysis system improves the representation of sea-surface temperature, sea ice, and ocean circulation, supporting better forecasts, climate monitoring, and the upcoming ERA6 reanalysis.

A new SEWA scoping study explores how impact-based forecasting, regional collaboration and improved data access could strengthen early warning systems across Sub-Saharan Africa.