UAE lands WMO presidency: The UAE has been tapped for the presidency of the World Meteorological Organization, with its National Centre of Meteorology (NCM) head Abdulla Al Mandous (LinkedIn) elected as the new head of the WMO for a four-year term, Wam reported on Thursday. Al Mandous, who secured 98 votes from the WMO’s 193 member states and territories, is succeeding Germany’s Gerhard Adrian, who served as WMO president since June 2019. Al Mandous, who is also the UAE's permanent representative to the WMO and president of the WMO’s Regional Association II (Asia), is the first Arab meteorologist from Asia to be elected WMO head.