A press release from the Ministry of Environment and Energy (Minae) indicates that by Friday the participants will analyze what happened in the 2022 hurricane season and review the annual operational plan for 2023.
They will also decide whether to remove names from hurricane lists because of their impact, and will be represented on panels on early warning and international cooperation.
The selection of Costa Rica by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) as the site for the 2023 event is in part a response to the 135th anniversary celebrations of the National Meteorological Institute (IMN), which integrates this hurricane committee.
For the head of the Minae, Franz Tattenbach, Costa Rica is fully involved in the technical procedures that have to be carried out in order to regulate the cyclone problem in our region. “We are very pleased to be hosts,” he said.
Conducting multiple roundtables for the first time, Minae said, is designed to encourage exchanges of views with forecasters in each country and improve coordination of the 26-year-old Hurricane Committee, one of the most successful regional coordination platforms in the world.
IMN Director Werner Stolz pointed out that the committee annually reviews the operational plan used at the Hurricane Center, which issues tropical wave, storm and cyclone warnings.
“There is no doubt that for Hurricane Otto (2016), for example, the information issued by this center has contributed to effective early warning in our country, as is the case with all cyclone systems that hit us regularly year after year,” he stressed .Proud.
For his part, WMO Representative for North America, Central America and the Caribbean, Rodney Martínez, paid tribute to the work and history of the IMN, which celebrates its 135th anniversary this year.
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