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Representatives from 29 national weather services are gathered in Norrköping this week. The Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute, SMHI, hosts a meeting for Eumetnet.

R/V Aranda monitored the entire Baltic Sea: poor oxygen condition continues, amount of phosphorus risen in the Sea of Bothnia and the Baltic Proper.

SMHI and SYKE, the Finnish Environment Institute, have begun a close collaboration to monitor the marine environment of the Baltic and the North Sea.

OceanWeb on smhi.se is now being re-launched in a new, more accessible form. OceanWeb is a web application for the visualization of ocean observations and forecasts for the seas around Sweden; the Baltic, Kattegat and Skagerrak.

The serious oxygen conditions that have affected the Baltic Sea during the 2000s continue. The oxygen survey performed during autumn 2013 show that 15% of the bottom areas are dead due to total absence of oxygen and about 30% suffer from acute oxygen deficiency.

The Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute, SMHI, has won the award for Sweden's Most Modern Agency 2013. The award was presented by the Minister for Public Administration and Housing Stefan Attefall at a conference on quality and operational development at the end of November.

A new drought warning system is being developed for parts of South Africa. The recently started project is focusing on producing forecasts and recommendations so as to better manage times of strain. The work is being done in close co-operation with local players.