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ECMWF co-leads and contributes expertise, tools and data to the State of Wildfires report. The report highlights evidence that climate change is intensifying global wildfires, with major impacts on health, ecosystems, and economies.

ECMWF’s 50th anniversary events continued in the historic city of Bologna, Italy, from 15 to 19 September to reflect on achievements, share expertise, and to look to the future of weather forecasting, environmental monitoring and computing.

ECMWF has made its Real-time Catalogue open, advancing its open data strategy and supporting global efforts to improve early warnings and build resilience.

The ECMWF Code for Earth programme reaches its Final Day celebration, recognising the participants and ten winning projects which help address challenges in data visualisation, machine learning, and software development.

European collaboration on artificial intelligence for weather and climate has been recognised with two nominations in this year’s HPCWire Reader’s Choice Awards and voting for the awards is now open.

Part of ECMWF’s year of activities for its 50th anniversary takes place this week (15–19 September) in Bologna, Italy, including a series of workshops the launch of a new publication.

Europe’s first exascale supercomputer, JUPITER, at Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany, has gone into operation, marking a significant milestone in high-performance computing for weather and climate research.

We are participating in the 2025 Annual Meeting of the European Meteorological Society from 7 to 12 September. Find out about our booth and which sessions our staff are involved in as speakers, poster presenters and conveners.

ECMWF news highlights in the first seven months of 2025 include updates on our Integrated Forecasting System and our Artificial Intelligence Forecasting System, on initiatives in weather science, and on the EU-funded services implemented by ECMWF.

The summer 2025 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.