World Meteorological Organization

Date & Time

10-11 September 2025  09:00 - 17:00 CET

Logistics

Venue:  WMO headquarters, Press Room (ground floor)

Provisional agenda

Documents

Wednesday 10 September 2025

Opening Session (09:00 - 10:00)

• Welcome (Chairperson / WMO / EUMETSAT)

• Adoption of Agenda

• Adoption of the Report of the Previous RAIDEG Meetings

• Review of List of Actions

Session #1 EUMETCast-Africa dissemination baseline and PUMA stations (10:00 - 13:00) 

10h00        EUMETCast-Africa baseline

• Presentation of current baseline and proposed changes (EUMETSAT – Erdem Erdi)

• Discussion

10h30 Coffee break

10h45         Update on new generation of meteorological satellites

• WMO Space Programme update – WMO (Heikki Pohjola)

• Status of Meteosat (MSG, IODC, MTG-I, MTG-S) – EUMETSAT – Erdem Erdi

• Status of Polar Orbiting satellites (Metop, EPS-SG) – EUMETSAT – Erdem Erdi

• Update on H-SAF products - EUMETSAT H-SAF

• Open Discussion

12h00         PUMA stations

• Outcome of the PUMA annual survey (EUMETSAT - 15 min) 

• Status of PUMA-2025 deployment and training (AUC-Tecnavia – EUMETSAT - 30 min)

• Latest update of the PUMA-2025 skyceiver  (Techniavia - 15 min) 

13h00  Lunch Break

14h00         EUMETCast-Terrestrial – presentation (EUMETSAT / Ghana / Mauritius)

14h30         RARS-Africa. Status (ACMAD)

Session #2  - Regional reports

15h00         Report from regional representatives  (10 min each)

• Northern Africa

  • Western Africa

  • Eastern Africa

  • Central Africa

  • Southern African

  • Indian Ocean 

16h00         Coffee break

16h30         Report from the Regional training centre (10 min each)

• EAMAC

  • IMTR

  • DMN Maroc

  • SAWS – South Africa

17h00         Report from the University of Ghana (JCOMM)

17h30         End of Day #1

Thursday 11 September 2025

Session #3 – Early Warning

09h00 – Space for Early Warning

• Update on the Nowcasting SAF software – EUMETSAT NWC SAF

• Update on EW4All from WMO – 30 min

  • Overview of the EW4ALL initiative – Erica Allis

  • EW4ALL Satellite Gap Analysis – Zoya Andreeva 

  • Training on satellite for operational hydrometeorological services in Africa – Tania Gascon

• Update on SEWA – AUC/EUMETSAT/ECMWF – 30 min

• Status of Africa RSMC designation and update on SWFP programme – WMO – 15 min

• Open discussion on requirement for satellite products to support Early Warning

10h30 Coffee break 

Session #4 – Others

11h00  (20 min each, inc. questions)

• Presentation of WIS-2 

• Presentation of SOFF

• Use of DCP-DCS (Data collection platform) in support to SOFF – case study

12h30 Lunch break

Session #5 – Closing 

14h00

• Review of the recommendations

• Way forwards

• Closing of the meeting 

16h00         End of 18^th RAIDEG meeting