The last few months have been a very busy period, as can be seen from this third issue of PolarPredictionNews.

For example, YOPP has been officially launched at WMO on 15 May 2017; important planning meetings have taken place,including the eighth meeting of the PPP Steering Group as well as the second YOPP-Southern Hemisphere meeting; major international projectshave started that will make significant contributions to YOPP (e.g. the Horizon2020 project APPLICATE); a call for applications for the second Polar Prediction School, which will close on 15 September, has been issued; a first version of the YOPP Data Portal has come online; and the first YOPP modelling datasets are now available.

The year of polar prediction third newsletter