The award presentation ceremony was held on 22 May 2008 in the Blue Hall at Stockholm. The citation says: "They have a strong vision, global objectives, a robust sustainability model and demonstrate information exchange between national and international organizations sharing weather data."

The Award reflects success achieved through the active contributions from participating Members in the project, the stout support of WMO Secretariat and the enthusiastic inputs of the Members operating the website in several languages.

On 1 January 2008, the hosting of the Portuguese language version of the World Weather Information Service website is taken up by the Instituto de Meteorologia of Portugal. The new hyperlink is http://wmo.meteo.pt/.

Efforts made by the Meteorological and Geophysical Bureau of Macao, China in hosting the Portuguese language version since 2004 is duly acknowledged and highly appreciated.

The web site on worldwide official weather forecasts, World Weather Information Service (WWIS)<www.worldweather.org>, starts formal operation today (23 March 2005) after a trial period of over two years.

At the 13^th Session of the Commission for Basic Systems Meeting at St. Petersburg, 23 February - 3 March 2005, the Commission endorsed the pilot project to become an operational component of the Public Weather Services Programme of World Meteorological Organization. It was agreed that the current host Members, viz. China; Hong Kong, China; Macao, China; and Oman, would continue to maintain the Chinese, English, Portuguese and Arabic versions of the WWIS web site respectively .

"Official Observations. Official Forecasts." - to realize our commitment on the provision of "Official Observations", this "Weather Observations" web page have been developed to display the global current weather observations. When you entered the first page, you would see a global view of cloudiness and rain. Click on the world map to zoom in for detailed viewing.