In Mozambique, Meteorologists Can't Keep Up With Climate Change

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🗓️ 15 January 2020

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Accurate weather forecasting can be a matter of life or death. So countries with less money like Mozambique face a big challenge. They can't build and maintain their own weather radar or satellites. Instead, they rely on weather maps created by wealthier countries, like the U.S. NPR climate reporter Becky Hersher tells us what that means for Mozambique, a country where the weather's gotten worse as the climate changes. Reach the show by emailing [email protected].

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0:00.0	You're listening to shortwave from NPR.
0:05.0	Maddie, survive here with the one, the only Rebecca Hersher.
0:08.7	Hey, Becky, what's up?
0:09.7	Hey, I'm great.
0:11.8	So people might know that you report on climate change for NPR.
0:15.3	Yeah, maybe.
0:16.3	Like my mom knows that.
0:18.6	But today we're talking about a very simple thing, which is what is the weather?
0:22.7	Can you tell me what's the weather?
0:24.5	Like today?
0:25.5	Yeah.
0:26.5	It's, okay.
0:27.5	So it's 10.30.
0:28.5	We're looking at just bright and shiny skies, no chance of rain.
0:33.3	And it's about 27 degrees.
0:35.7	You got like nice hourly.
0:37.0	Oh, yeah.
0:38.0	I'm looking at every hour.
0:39.0	Very satisfied that your phone is telling you.
0:41.5	And the reason is because your phone has access to really detailed weather information
0:46.7	from our federal government, National Oceanic and Atmosphere Administration, since lots
0:51.0	of accurate information about whether all over the country, it's a huge luxury.
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