Bangladesh Weather Observation Team- BWOT is a group of youths, where few of them are meteorological students, who are providing accurate weather alert through the easiest way. We are working day & night in multiple way to ensure decreasing nationwide losses of any natural disasters.
What do we work on?
We mainly deliver near accurate weather warnings to farmers, fishermen and other professionals across all over Bangladesh. In this age, every year in Bangladesh, there are huge amounts of damage by natural disaster due to lack of timely warning to the people.
Members of this organization are constantly working to broadcast effective weather alert across the remote areas of the country to reduce weather-related damages to the public. Also, we have developed a volunteer team with interested people from all over Bangladesh to execute this work more conveniently. Our organization works for the people of the country throughout the year.
However, the initiatives of this organization are most effective during times of disaster. And we have been able to reduce the losses of huge amounts of resource so far across our community. So, we are very much hopeful to operate these activities in a wider area and reduce much more damages of the natural threat across the country.
Our volunteer activities:
We have our own team of volunteers to send early warning messages to the remote areas of the country and to get an idea of impact frequency of the natural disaster across the country. Through whom we reach farmers, laborers, traders and people of various professions with accurate weather alert locally.
Our hotline number and its effectiveness:
We have a dedicated hotline number “+8801710851765” to provide weather related information. Where people from different parts of the country calls and get information. Any of their query have answers by 18h/day each week.
How do we collect weather data?
We mainly use global weather models those are openly available. The data obtained from these models (such as wind flow, air pressure, precipitation, temperature, humidity, weather index and many more parameters) are filtered with current observation results to determine the most reliable data through research.
These are the sources where we have all the meteorological data to use in our reanalysis process.
THE AGENCY NAMES BELOW: NOAA, ECMWF, BMD, IMD, JMA, METEO FRANCE, UK MET, CIMSS, BUREAU OF METEOROLOGY, EARTH NETWORKS, SSEC, CIMSS, JTWC, DMH, ICON, CMA, NCICS, BAF MET
How are our activities managed?
Each of our members has a different role to work with. And according to the type of work, each member has been designated separately. Our members run the BWOT organization with a part-time of their daily life. Till now, this organization has been running office activities on a virtual platform with great success.
Mission & Vision of this project:
The mission of this project in to build a strong economy of the country by reducing climate related losses nationwide. Currently, natural disasters have become one of the greatest obstacles to the prosperity of the country. In such a situation, the prosperity of the country becomes very difficult without dealing with natural disasters.
Audiences:
| 500,000+ Beneficiaries | We reach them via social media platforms, our websites, direct phone calls, and onsite volunteers |
Apart from this, many people of the country indirectly benefit from it. And even through our volunteers, countless people of the country gets benefit from getting updates well enough time in advance.
Funding of this Organization:
All the expenses of this organization are mainly borne by our members. At the same time, a limited amount of financial support is available through Facebook and Google Adsense. Except those, we don’t have any other financial support till now to run this organization. None of this organization have personal benefit nor having sponsorship to expand our activities. But we encourage donors to support us to have further development of this organization.