Italian company contracted to install auto-weather stations in 25 islands

Italian company CAE has been contracted to install automatic weather stations in 25 islands where the National Meteorological Center does not have an office.

The MVR 11.87 million project is being funded by the free aid of the Italian government. At a special ceremony held at the Environment Ministry today, the contract agreement was signed by the Minister of Environment and Energy, Thoriq Ibrahim and the Vice President of CAE, Giancarlo Maria Pedrini.

In the automatic weather station project, an agreement was also signed in June this year with Japan and Italy to install weather stations in 29 islands.

The agreement signed today ensures that the weather stations be installed and operational within three months.

Speaking at the ceremony today, Minister Thoriq said that by the end of the second quarter next year, 55 more islands will have weather stations under the current project.

Environment Ministry said that with the installations of the new weather stations, the capacity to gather meteorological data would increase significantly and cover the entire country in a meteorological network.