Dr. Abu Lahoum and the governor of Hajjah inaugurate the meteorological station

The Deputy Prime Minister for Economic Affairs – Minister of Finance, Dr. Rashid Abboud Abu Lahoum, and the Governor of Hajjah, Hilal Al-Soufi, inaugurated today the meteorological station in the governorate.

Deputy Prime Minister and Governor Al-Soufi, accompanied by a member of the House of Representatives, Dr. Ahmed Nassar, the Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Yemeni News Agency, Saba Nasr Al-Din Amer, the Chairman of the Rural Water Projects Authority, Adel Bader, the Undersecretary of the General Authority for Civil Aviation and Meteorology, Raed Jabal, and the Director of the Meteorological Sector of the Authority, Dr. Hadi Khairan, briefed On the contents of the station and its role in serving the development of the province.

They listened to an explanation about the tasks of the manual monitoring station, which consists of temperature, humidity, atmospheric pressure, wind, precipitation and clouds monitoring devices, as well as the tasks of the automatic station in monitoring weather elements.
During the inauguration, the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance praised the role of the Civil Aviation and Meteorology Authority and the efforts exerted to develop and modernize the National Meteorological Center.
While the governor, Al-Soufi, indicated the importance of the opening of the meteorological station in serving the development of the governorate.

In turn, the Undersecretary of the Civil Aviation and Meteorology Authority stressed the interest in developing the National Center of Meteorology within the plans and programs of the Authority, so that it can work around the clock. He pointed to the importance of the meteorological sector and the services it provides in tracking the weather and climate changes.

After that, the General Authority of Civil Aviation and Meteorology honored the governor of Hajjah, and the Secretary General of the local council in the governorate, Ismail Al-Muhayim, with the authority’s shields for their role in supporting the efforts to establish the station, and the observer Akram Shaaban was also honored.

The opening was attended by the directors of monitoring at the authority, Khaled Ali, the equipment, Adel Heba, and the monitoring and follow-up, Abdul Wahab Al-Kohlani.