{"id":9760,"date":"2025-03-23T08:08:18","date_gmt":"2025-03-23T08:08:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/antarcticlegacy\/?p=9760"},"modified":"2025-03-23T08:08:18","modified_gmt":"2025-03-23T08:08:18","slug":"meteorologists-at-gough-island-celebrating-world-meteorology-day-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/antarcticlegacy\/2025\/03\/23\/meteorologists-at-gough-island-celebrating-world-meteorology-day-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Meteorologists at Gough Island celebrating World Meteorology Day 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gough Overwintering team 70 Meteorological Technicians celebrating <a href=\"https:\/\/wmo.int\/site\/world-meteorological-day-2025\">World Meteorological Day<\/a> at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sanap.ac.za\/stations\">Gough Island<\/a> in the mid-South Atlantic Ocean, 2500KM away from Cape Town. A weather station has been operating on Gough Island since 1956. It is operated as part of the network of the South African Weather Service (SAWS). (Scroll down for videos)<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/antarcticlegacy\/files\/2025\/03\/MWD_2025_moon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-9768 \" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/antarcticlegacy\/files\/2025\/03\/MWD_2025_moon.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"609\" height=\"235\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/antarcticlegacy\/files\/2025\/03\/MWD_2025_moon.jpg 1320w, https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/antarcticlegacy\/files\/2025\/03\/MWD_2025_moon-300x116.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/antarcticlegacy\/files\/2025\/03\/MWD_2025_moon-1024x396.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/antarcticlegacy\/files\/2025\/03\/MWD_2025_moon-768x297.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 609px) 100vw, 609px\" \/><\/a>Indeed in South Africa, SAWS is the voice for weather and climate forecasting and also a member of the <a href=\"https:\/\/wmo.int\/\">World Meteorological Organization<\/a> (WMO). The meteorological technicians perform daily weather observation, quality control of climate data, scientific research assigned by ocean and coast, monthly conformance and verification of the Automatic Weather Station (AWS) instruments.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>&#8220;Closing the early warning gap together&#8221;<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/antarcticlegacy\/files\/2025\/03\/mwo_met_work.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-9764 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/antarcticlegacy\/files\/2025\/03\/mwo_met_work.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1548\" height=\"592\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/antarcticlegacy\/files\/2025\/03\/mwo_met_work.jpg 1548w, https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/antarcticlegacy\/files\/2025\/03\/mwo_met_work-300x115.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/antarcticlegacy\/files\/2025\/03\/mwo_met_work-1024x392.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/antarcticlegacy\/files\/2025\/03\/mwo_met_work-768x294.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/antarcticlegacy\/files\/2025\/03\/mwo_met_work-1536x587.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1548px) 100vw, 1548px\" \/><\/a>Happy Meteorological Day<\/strong><br \/>\nSenior Meteorologist (Metkassie): <strong>Thendo Sikhwari<\/strong><br \/>\nAssistants Meteorologists (Metkassies): <strong>Sandiso Nkosi<\/strong> and <strong>Nkhumeleni Oscar Radzhadzhi<\/strong><\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 1280px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('video');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-9760-1\" width=\"1280\" height=\"592\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/antarcticlegacy\/files\/2025\/03\/MWD_Gough_day.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/antarcticlegacy\/files\/2025\/03\/MWD_Gough_day.mp4\">https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/antarcticlegacy\/files\/2025\/03\/MWD_Gough_day.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 848px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-9760-2\" width=\"848\" height=\"480\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/antarcticlegacy\/files\/2025\/03\/MWD_Gough_night.mp4?_=2\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/antarcticlegacy\/files\/2025\/03\/MWD_Gough_night.mp4\">https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/antarcticlegacy\/files\/2025\/03\/MWD_Gough_night.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p>Above Day and Night Videos form Gough Island Below launching of Weather Balloon&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 592px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-9760-3\" width=\"592\" height=\"1296\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/antarcticlegacy\/files\/2025\/03\/Weather-Baloon-Launch.mp4?_=3\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/antarcticlegacy\/files\/2025\/03\/Weather-Baloon-Launch.mp4\">https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/antarcticlegacy\/files\/2025\/03\/Weather-Baloon-Launch.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p>Text and images supplied by Senior Meteorologist Thendo Sikhwari<\/p>\n<p>#DFFE #SANAP #WMO #GoughIsland #WorldMeteorologicalDay #SAWS #G70.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gough Overwintering team 70 Meteorological Technicians celebrating World Meteorological Day at Gough Island in the mid-South Atlantic Ocean, 2500KM away from Cape Town. A weather station has been operating on Gough Island since 1956. It is operated as part of the network of the South African Weather Service (SAWS). (Scroll down for videos) Indeed in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9816,"featured_media":9772,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9879,66190,56163],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gough-island","category-international-celebration-day","category-meteorology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/antarcticlegacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/antarcticlegacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/antarcticlegacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/antarcticlegacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9816"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/antarcticlegacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9760"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/antarcticlegacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9760\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9780,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/antarcticlegacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9760\/revisions\/9780"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/antarcticlegacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/antarcticlegacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/antarcticlegacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/antarcticlegacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}