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"content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, following the request for a statement on the weather forecast by Sen. Okong’o, the Committee has received a response to the request from the Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources and going straight to the statements sought, the answer to question one which was: the methodologies used by the Kenya Meteorological Department (KMD) to get weather forecast, the department issues seamless weather forecasts using various methodologies depending on the sector. The temporal and spatial scales: these include, the following time scales: (a) Now casting forecasts which are for two to six hours. (b) Daily forecasts which are forecast 24 hours. (c) Weekly forecasts which are for 7 days. (d) Monthly forecasts which are for 30 days. (e) Seasonal forecasts which are for 90 days and (f) Climatic change scenarios up to 50 years. There are other forecasts like terminal area forecast, route forecast, significant meteorological information, air craft takeoff and landing forecasts, and all for aviation industry. There are also marine forecasts, agro-meteorological forecasts for agriculture and food security, hydro-meteorological forecasts for flood forecast, forecasting the water resources and energy sectors, health malaria forecast, severe weather events, including forecast for military operations. On question two, the Senator sought to know whether the methodology used conforms to the established global standards. Kenya ratified the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) convention on 2nd June, 1964. As such, the forecasting methodologies used by KMD are as per the recommended best practices by WMO. On question three, whether the Meteorological Department is well equipped, with adequate infrastructure and manpower to give reliable forecasts, the department would like to thank the government for equipping it with modern equipment and plants, forecast observing, transmitting, processing, archiving and disseminating weather and climatic information including well-trained manpower. The KMD infrastructure consists of the following: (a) Observational systems and networks, which are inclusive of surface observation systems, consisting of 39 manned stations, comprising 24 hour synoptic weather and 14 agro-meteorological stations, 72 automatic weather stations, 17 hydro- meteorological automatic weather stations, three airport weather observation systems, two automatic weather fix buoys, over 1000 voluntary observing rainfall stations, four tidal gauge stations, one ozone profile measuring system, one global atmospheric watch The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate"
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