Dear CMOS member or past Congress participant,
The Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society (CMOS) 55th Congress will be held 31 May to 11 June, 2021, hosted by the Vancouver Island Centre. The Congress will be held using a virtual (on-line) format, extending over a longer period, 9-10 days, with reduced hours each day to accommodate multiple time zones.
Congratulations to David Grimes, C.M, who is to become a Member of the Order of Canada, for his outstanding leadership in meteorology and for his pioneering development of a global strategy on climate change and disaster-risk preparedness. 
The Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society (CMOS) FELLOWS and HONORARY FELLOWS Nominations Deadline: March 15.
March 15th is the deadline to recognize your colleagues by nominating one or more of them to be a CMOS Fellow or CMOS Honorary Fellow. It may seem far away, but it always arrives faster than we expected.
Update 9 November 2020
1. The 2021 Congress will be entirely on-line, over the 2-week period: 31 May – 12 June. To accommodate different time zones across Canada, the daily conference hours will be shorter: 0800-1300h Pacific Time; 1100h-1600 Eastern Time.
The WeatherPod – the podcast which explores the role of the weather enterprise in building resilience to extreme weather & climate change.
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Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society (CMOS) AWARDS Nominations Deadline: Feb 15.
February 15th is the deadline for nominations for the CMOS Prizes and Awards. It may seem far away, but it always seems to arrive faster than we thought.
David Phillips, Senior Climatologist, Environment and Climate Change Canada
Urban floods, ice rains, winter heat waves, interface wildfires, weather bombs, megadroughts – if you think we’ve been cursed and clobbered a lot harder and a lot more often recently, you are not imagining it.
– By Marek Stastna, CMOS President, and Professor in the Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Waterloo –
After a glorious stretch of humidity free summer weather, my southern Ontario summer literally ended with a bang. At around 5 a.m. on Sept. 7, lightning struck so close to my house that there was no count to be had between the lightning and thunder.
Please see register for the following Webinar to be given by Prof. Adrian Gerhard, the President of WMO:
Global Weather Enterprise Forum webinar, 28 October – ‘Unlocking the Benefits of Open Weather Data’.
