France Applies to Host Top Weather Forecaster Now Based in U.K.
- European weather center expected to pick new home in December
- ECMWF is already moving its supercomputer center to Italy
Source: gmp von Gerkan, Marg & Partner
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France applied to host the European Center for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts, touting its interest in climate and scientific issues and President Emmanuel Macron’s commitments to fight climate change. The center, one of the world’s most accurate predictors of global weather, is currently based in Reading in the U.K.
The ECMWF will be relocating some of its teams and their families to European Union territory, and France is proposing to move them to the southern city of Toulouse, the country’s Environment Ministry said in a statement on Saturday. The move would eventually cover 250 of the center’s scientists and technical staff, as well as their families, according to the ministry.