Eight additional meteostations to be installed for '12 APEC summit

VLADIVOSTOK, August 3 (Itar-Tass) - Eight additional meteorological
stations are to installed in various districts here and and on the piers
of the bridge on Russkiy (Russian) Island before the end of this year to
ensure weather forecasting for the benefit of participants in the 2012
summit of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum, Varvara
Koridze, press secretary of the Primorsky Territory hydrometeo center, has
told Itar-Tass.
"Weather conditions in various districts of the city differ from one
another due to rugged topography and geographical position of Vladivostok.
When fog is reported in one place, the sun is shining in another. A
weather forecasting report for the city as a whole is just one oriented to
the city's center," said Yelena Gridneva, chief meteorologist of the
center.
Following the introduction of new meteostations, which will measure
wind velocity and direction, air temperature and moisture content,
atmospheric pressure, the amount and intensity of precipitation, a city
weather forecast, in an automatic mode, will take into account weather
conditions in the districts and the peculiarities of the city.
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