/ 21 March 2000

MINISTER TO HIGHLIGHT WEATHER MONITORING

THE Minister of Environmental Affairs and Tourism Mohammed Valli Moosa will highlight the importance of environmental monitoring and the weather in particular, at the World Meteorological Day Celebration in Pretoria on Thursday 23 March. This celebration marks 140 years of weather monitoring in South Africa and the 50TH Anniversary of the World Meteorological Organization. It will be used to highlight the advancement of technology on this field since the first day weather was monitored.