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NiMet, Earth Networks collaborate on weather services

FG to assist more African countries to advance in meteorology

Earth Networks, a global provider of weather intelligence, announced on Wednesday it is collaborating with the Nigerian Meteorological Agency (NiMet) to build the country’s Total Lighting and Mesoscale AWS Network (NTLMAN) for early warning of severe weather.

The partnership was commemorated during a live virtual Memorandum of Understanding signing ceremony from Abuja and Germantown, Maryland.

Under the agreement, Earth Networks and NiMet will deploy and operate a comprehensive early warning lightning detection network in Nigeria and jointly co-market new sources of weather and lightning data to public and private industries in Nigeria.

“We’ve been working in more than 25 countries in Africa since 2013 to save lives and protect property with high-resolution weather and lightning data,” said Jim Anderson, Vice President of Global Sales at Advanced Environmental Monitoring, Earth Networks’ parent company in a statement.

“We are excited to partner with NiMet to help accelerate the expansion of their high impact weather forecasting capacity and bring new weather warning services to enterprise customers in Nigeria,” said Anderson.

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Precision weather stations and lightning sensors will be hosted at NiMet locations and maintained by its staff.

In addition to the network equipment, Earth Networks will also provide training and development for NiMet staff regarding the use of comprehensive weather data, including real-time and historical lightning data, weather observations, sensor forecasts, and live storm tracking and alerting.

This new agreement with NiMet supports Earth Networks’ commitment to building sustainable public-private weather information services partnerships with countries around the globe.

Speaking also during the virtual MOU signing, Adam Jagelski, environment, science, technology, and health officer at the US Embassy said the partnership between Earth Networks and NiMet will help expand Nigeria’s capacity to accurately provide critical weather forecasting information and climate services, supporting Nigeria’s economic development by protecting the lives and property that are critical to several key sectors.

Government agencies and private enterprises in Nigeria alike will now have access to a complete suite of visualization, forecasting, storm identification, alerting, and tracking services, developed and offered jointly by NiMet and Earth Networks.

This cooperation means any industry affected by weather in Nigeria, including aviation, oil and gas, mining, and manufacturing, can now take advantage of the most technologically advanced severe weather alerts and data to promote safety and ease operational challenges caused by weather.