TAHMO Weather Stations for Africa - EVERY METER COUNTS
TAHMO
Weather stations for Africa
FARMING IS ALL ABOUT KNOWING THE WEATHER
Today, weather data improve the lives of many people. But, there are still parts of the globe where weather monitoring doesn’t exist. That is exactly the case across much of the African continent.
CLOSING THE CLIMATE DATA GAP
The Trans-African Hydro-Meteorological Observatory (TAHMO) initiative seeks to install and operate 20,000 weather stations in sub-Saharan Africa.
LEARNING HOW TO FARM BETTER
In the upcoming century, world population will reach 9.7 billion people by 2050. We will need to produce more food – and for that, we desperately need more and better farming.
WMO RESOLUTIONS 40 & 25
The TAHMO initiative supports World Meteorological Organization (WMO) Resolutions 40 and 25 by giving free access to raw weather data for scientific research and government use.
TAHMO FACTS
- The first TAHMO weather station was installed in 2012.
- To date, TAHMO has installed over 500 weather stations in Cameroon, Chad, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ghana, Kenya, Mali, Nigeria, Senegal, South Africa, and Uganda.
- The majority of weather stations are being installed at local schools where teachers are using the data in their classroom lessons.
