Private weather information provider Weather-Philippines has deployed a total of 777 automated weather stations (AWS) nationwide as of the end 2015.
To date, WPF has 574 partners – 6 platinum and 22 gold donors, 12 service partners, and 534 site partners. These site partners, mostly meteorological sites that are vulnerable to frequent weather disturbances, receive AWS units for free.
An AWS measures its location’s rainfall, temperature, pressure, humidity, wind speed and wind direction, and global solar radiation. These data are then processed through weather specialist MeteoGroup’s systems and uploaded as accurate five-day weather forecasts on WPF’s website www.weather.com.ph and WeatherPhilippines mobile app for both Apple and Android devices.
WPF initially set to roll-out 1,000 AWS nationwide to provide free, accurate, and localized weather information as a complement to the go-vernment’s effort to build a more resilient Philippines amidst a barrage of typhoons whole year round, by increasing community awareness and building capacity to prepare and respond to disaster. (pr)
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