Showing posts with label weather updates. Show all posts
Showing posts with label weather updates. Show all posts

Monday, May 24, 2010

IMD Plans To Offer Weather Updates On Mobile Phones

The India Meteorological Department (IMD), the country s official weather forecaster, plans to offer updates on tem- perature and rainfall and warn- ings about disturbances in weather on mobile phones.
It has invited bids from tele- com companies and service or- ganizations to put the service in place nationwide, assistant di- rector general A.K. Bhatnagar said.

There is a lot of data that is already available on our web- site, but given IMD s mission of invigorating its weather dissem- ination services, this is a key ini- tiative of ours to send out data to a large mass of people, he said.

Some private weather fore- casters, such as Skymet, already offer customized weather analy- sis and predictions on mobile phones, but they rely on data and analyses from foreign weather agencies.

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With thanks : source : LiveMint