{"id":19410,"date":"2016-12-27T13:18:22","date_gmt":"2016-12-27T13:18:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=19410"},"modified":"2016-12-27T13:18:22","modified_gmt":"2016-12-27T13:18:22","slug":"world-meteorological-organization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/world-meteorological-organization\/","title":{"rendered":"World Meteorological Organization"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Question: World Meteorological Organization (WMO) has its headquarters in which of the following city?<\/strong><br \/>\n(a) Rome<br \/>\n(b) London<br \/>\n(c) New York<br \/>\n(d) Geneva<br \/>\n<strong>Ans. (d)<br \/>\nRelated facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li>On 13 December 2016 World Meteorological Organization have established a new world record for wave height measured by a buoy.<\/li>\n<li>An automated buoy recorded the wave in a part of the North Atlantic Ocean between Iceland and the U.K. on 4 February 2013.<\/li>\n<li>It was 19 meters, or 62.3 feet, in height.<\/li>\n<li>The previous record of 18.275 meters (59.96 feet) was measured on 8 December 2007, also in the North Atlantic.<\/li>\n<li>The highest waves typically occur in the North Atlantic, rather than the Southern Ocean.<\/li>\n<li>Wind circulation patterns and atmospheric pressure in the North Atlantic in winter leads to intense extra-tropical storms, often so-called &#8220;bombs&#8221;.<\/li>\n<li>The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) is an intergovernmental organization with a membership of 191 Member States and Territories.<\/li>\n<li>It originated from the International Meteorological Organization (IMO), which was founded in 1873.<\/li>\n<li>Established in 1950, WMO became the specialised agency of the United Nations for meteorology (weather and climate), operational hydrology and related geophysical sciences.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Reference:<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/public.wmo.int\/en\/media\/press-release\/19-meter-wave-sets-new-record-highest-significant-wave-height-measured-buoy\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/public.wmo.int\/en\/media\/press-release\/19-meter-wave-sets-new-record-highest-significant-wave-height-measured-buoy<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2016\/12\/14\/wipeout-huge-19-meter-high-wave-sets-new-record.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2016\/12\/14\/wipeout-huge-19-meter-high-wave-sets-new-record.html<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2016\/dec\/13\/highest-ever-wave-sets-record-iceland-britain-north-atlantic\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2016\/dec\/13\/highest-ever-wave-sets-record-iceland-britain-north-atlantic<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: World Meteorological Organization (WMO) has its headquarters in which of the following city? (a) Rome (b) London (c) New York (d) Geneva Ans. (d) Related facts: On 13 December 2016 World Meteorological Organization have established a new world record for wave height measured by a buoy. An automated buoy recorded the wave in a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":19312,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19410\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}