About the RMI
WOW-BE
RMI provides with WOW-BE (Weather Observation Website - Belgium) a platform for sharing, observing, discovering and further investigating of weather observations.
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The project was launched as an experiment from UK Met Office in 2011 where everyone, who wants, can upload their weather observations. It was growing quickly and developed to a network of automatic weather stations from private people and schools. Australia, New Zealand and (in 2015) the Netherlands joined the WOW network which makes it today a global network with more than 10.000 stations. With the RMI as a new WOW-partner, we would like to offer this platform for everyone in Belgium who is interested in weather and climate.
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Weather and climate concern us all. WOW-BE is therefore the ideal instrument for the RMI to arouse interest in meteorology and climatology among the Belgian population and especially among the younger generation.
Beside that has WOW-BE also a scentific use. The collected data of WOW-BE give the RMI a lot of information about places where there are no official weather stations or very local phenomena that are not detected by our observation network.
Discover the WOW-BE website (only available in Dutch and French)