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- Name
- Maldives Meteorological Service
- Address
- Ibrahim Nasir International Airport,
- Zipcode
- 22000
- City
- Hulhule
- Country
- Maldives
- Phone
- +960 3323084
- Email
- nmc@meteorology.gov.mv
- Centre Website
- http://www.meteorology.gov.mv
organisation profile
- A meteorological service was established in Maldives in the early 1940s. It was first started with only a maximum and minimum thermometer, a rain gauge and an anemometer. The observations were done at a few times daily and the data was supplied to only a few parties. After 1974, Met office adapted to the international standard, SYNOP reports were done twice a day and the METAR reports were done from 5 am to 8 pm in addition with one upper air observation. The sea area forecasts and the route forecasts were prepared by the Colombo Observatory and sent to the Meteorological Centre via a SSB radio transceiver. Working under different offices of the government throughout the years, meteorological office became Maldives Meteorological Service (MMS) in 2009. Today, MMS is responsible for the seismological and meteorological services in Maldives. There are 5 Meteorological offices under MMS, the station in Hulhule’ being the main office. Aviation and synoptic observations done in the other four stations are sent to the Hulhule station on their respective time via email or fax. Each of these stations are now working on 24/7. In addition to these stations, there are 20 automated weather stations and 3 tide gauges installed across the country which provides real time data to MMS.
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- EDMO record id
- 5728
- Latest update
- 17 March 2023 12:28:45 PM
