EMS News

On Saturday 30 May our beloved and highly appreciated colleague and active EMS member Victoria Sinclair died in a terrible accident during a hiking tour in the Pyrenees at the age of only 42, in the prime of her life and career.[more]

The eighth and final paper is entitled Decades of science results and new technologies related to measurements of Earth’s Radiation Budget from space and a pathway for continuity of observations, authored by Thomas Vonder Haar, Peter Pilewskie, Maria Hakuba and Stanley Kidder. This contribution is a concise discussion of Earth Radiation Budget measurements from satellites – a research topic Ehrhard Raschke pioneered with colleagues – and a clear outlook toward the future.[more]

Carlos Calvo-Sancho, Spain, was awarded for the publication “Human-induced climate change amplification on storm dynamics in Valencia’s 2024 catastrophic flash flood,” published in Nature Communications. The publication is of extraordinary interest both to the meteorological community and to society at large.[more]

The EMS is awarding the EMS Technology Achievement Award 2026 to Windy.com, an all-in-one weather app for those who make crucial weather-related decisions. It stands out in the meteorological sector for transforming complex weather data into easily understandable formats. The app is very attractive, and adds value to active people in many sports, whereas it also offers specific and adapted visualization for individual needs.[more]

Markus Repnik receives the EMS Silver Medal for his outstanding leadership and impact on the European meteorological community through the creation of the Systematic Observations Financing Facility (SOFF), enhancing Europe’s role in sustaining global surface-based observations that are essential for modern weather prediction.[more]

The EMS Council met on 5&6 March in Ingolstadt, Germany. Important decisions that were taken included the election of Florence Rabier as the next President of the EMS, the selection of the 2026 Silver Medallist and the winners of the Technology Achievement Award, the continuation of the photo competition, approval and management of MoUs, and the venue for EMS2028, …[more]

At the recent Session of the EMS Council, the councillors elected Florence Rabier to become the 10th President of the EMS. She will take over the office from Liz Bentley, the first female EMS President, on the closing day of the EMS2026 in Utrecht on 11 September 2026.[more]

The African Meteorological Society (AfMS) will hold its first conference 20 – 23 April 2026 in Addis Abeba, Ethopia.
All Details on the programme and registration is available in the recent AfMS newsletter.[more]