[1] In 1882, Monsignor Luigi Giuseppe Lasagna, then founder and headmaster of the Colegio Salesiano Pío Nono, installed the first Meteorological and Climatological Observatory of Montevideo in Villa Colón.

[2] However, it was the Italian professor Luis Morandi, who was appointed in 1886 as director of the Colegio Pío Observatory, who began to consolidate a wide network of meteorological stations throughout the country in order to create a technical and official body.

[3] On July 5, 1895, a new meteorological station began operating in Ciudad Vieja, near the Bay of Montevideo, and its objective was to carry out climatological studies for the port reform projected on that date.

In the 1920s, the Observatory, which was already called the Uruguayan Meteorological Service (Spanish: Servicio Meteorológico del Uruguay), began to be located on the third floor of the Faculty of Humanities and Sciences of the University of the Republic.

[7] According to the law, its purpose is to "provide public meteorological and climatological services, consisting of observing, recording and predicting the weather and climate in the national territory and adjacent oceanic areas and other spaces of interest, in accordance with the applicable agreements, in order to contribute to the safety of people and goods and to the sustainable development of society".