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Fires in western North-America as well as in Siberia have been particularly acute over the past weeks, making plumes of pollutants affecting visibility and air quality particularly ubiquitous.

Building on the success of forecasting for the London 2012 Olympic games, the Met Office focus is now directed to providing the same outstanding support to the Paralympic games due to start on 29 August and running until 9 September.

This year’s edition of ECMWF’s Annual Seminar focuses on physical processes in numerical weather prediction (NWP), covering scientific challenges as well as achievements.

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.