Sixty years after its creation in 1961, the General Directorate of Meteorology (DGM) has taken fundamental steps in its evolution towards a high-level meteorological service, thus ensuring the multiple missions assigned to it as a public service of a on the other hand and as a service provider for the benefit of the various economic sectors of the country on the other hand.
Without seeking to be exhaustive, a brief reminder of these stages is necessary, thus making it possible to realize and better understand how this evolution was able to take place.
The major turning point of the General Directorate of Meteorology took place in 1990 when it was attached to the Ministry of Public Works and by the royal directives contained in the interview granted by the late HM Hassan II to the World Meteorological Organization on the eve of the Earth Summit (Rio Conference) in 1992 and by the message he had addressed to the 8th session of the Superior Council for Water and Climate (CSEC) in 1994 in which the strategic orientations of National Meteorology were fixed.
The passage of the Management into an Autonomously Managed State Service (in 1992) allows it to implement today a commercial policy and an orientation of its services aimed at providing its customers and partners with multiple services in the fields of weather and climate.
As their activities have expanded, the need to be even closer to the expectations of their partners has been felt, and a policy of regionalization of their services on Moroccan territory has emerged.
Thus, four regional meteorological directorates in 2002 and then six regional meteorological directorates in 2016 were created (Center (Agadir), Center-East (Beni Mellal), Center-West (Casablanca), North-West (Rabat), North- East (Fes), South (Laayoune)) in order to allow the development and provision of services more suited to the Region.
To position itself as a supplier of decision-making support information and high value-added elaborated products for the various sectors, the DGM has focused its development on the development of sectoral meteorology through the implementation of programs weather forecasts adapted to the different economic sectors of the country such as Agriculture, Water, Transport (Air, Land, Rail and Maritime), Construction, Industry, Tourism, Health and the Environment.
All these service activities could only be done by the mobilization of important and high-tech equipment, in terms of observation and telecommunications and by the constant upgrading of our computing capacities with the installation among others supercomputers to provide the computing power needed to improve their performance.
