It is these information that Meteorological Office Chief Executive Officer Mulipola Ausetalia Titimaea says will be critical to efforts by Samoa in resilience to extreme events.
“We are the only country in the Pacific with more than a hundred years of weather patterns and meteorological data records. Since 1890 we have been recording and keeping track of the patterns and these will be used again in the future,” he said.
“So it is important we learn to manage data, and as well as read them and interpret them,” he added.
