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Moderate El Niño conditions seen since this spring are continuing to strengthen and are likely to turn into a very strong event by the end of 2015, current forecasts suggest.

ECMWF is co-organizing a workshop on using satellite observations relating to clouds and precipitation in numerical weather prediction (NWP), to be held in the USA in December.

Forty years ago a group of European nations resolved to join forces to improve numerical weather prediction. Since then, successive resolution upgrades have helped to greatly improve ECMWF's predictions.

Effective ways to visualise data are essential in numerical weather prediction (NWP). Technological advances offer exciting possibilities, but some things have changed little since the early days of forecasting.

The ECMWF Annual Report 2014 is now available online.

The role of meteorology in the energy sector was the subject of an international conference in Boulder, Colorado, in June. David Richardson, who attended the event for ECMWF, explains why the growth in renewable energy is boosting demand for weather prediction across all timescales.

The Summer 2015 issue of the ECMWF Newsletter is now available. As well as news about ECMWF staff and events, it features articles about new developments and the use that can be made of ECMWF products.

Europe’s latest weather satellite has gone into orbit after it was launched from Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, late on 15 July.

ECMWF used the occasion of last week’s conference on 'Our Common Future Under Climate Change' in Paris to explain how it will implement the EU-funded Copernicus Climate Change and Atmosphere Monitoring Services.

ECMWF weather forecasts help one of the world’s top astronomical organisations, the European Southern Observatory (ESO), to fine-tune its telescopes in the quest to explore the outer reaches of the universe.