Meteorological Service, Jamaica (MetService JA) has added a new automatic weather station to its inventory of updated equipment across the island, a move intended to ultimately improve the quality of local forecasts and the reliability of long-term climate data. The station, located on the Mona campus of The University of the West Indies (UWI), stands 30-feet high and is equipped with multiple high-tech sensors for rain, temperature, humidity, atmospheric pressure, solar radiation and wind. The PIOJ led the acquisition of The UWI station, under a programme titled Improving Climate Data and Information Management Project (ICDIMP), a sub-project of the PPCR. It will be managed under a partnership among PIOJ, MetService JA and Climate Studies Group Mona. ICDIMP Project Manager Lehome Johnson explained that part of the reason for siting the latest piece of equipment at UWI was because the university is designing a real time weather platform to remotely tap into individual stations across the island and provide up-to-the minute data on a range of weather data.