The African Union Meteorological Agency is the continental authority for weather, climate and early-warning services. Headquartered in Pretoria, it coordinates the observation, forecasting and data infrastructure that underpins the national meteorological services of all 54 member states.
Operates the African Continental Forecast Model, with hourly temperature, precipitation and wind out to seven days for every capital.
Maintains the AfriClim archive of long-term normals and daily temperature records across all six continental climate zones.
Geostationary cloud and atmospheric imaging refreshed every 15 minutes across the continent and surrounding oceans.
Issues severe-weather alerts for extreme heat, storms, flooding and damaging winds from a network of sentinel stations.
Terminal and en-route weather guidance for the continent’s flight information regions, to ICAO standards.
Coastal and offshore sea-state, swell and wind forecasts for African Atlantic, Indian Ocean, Mediterranean and Red Sea waters.
Advances continental climate modelling, monsoon dynamics and drought prediction in support of member-state services.