Today, the weather can be found at any time and on any weather site that the Internet provides its users in a wide range. Each of these sites tries to give the most accurate forecast, but one of them is still considered the most informative and most frequently visited. What is this site?
Popular Weather Sites
Well-established weather sites include www.meteoprog.ua, which provides forecasts for 15,000 cities around the world. The site receives its data using its own high-performance computer cluster Meteoprog, which operates on the basis of the Weather Research and Forecasting weather forecast model. This model is a daughter modification of GFS, the development of which belongs to the US National Center for Atmospheric and Oceanic Research.
A distinctive feature of the Meteoprog website is the presentation of the forecast in the form of various funny infographics (maps, tables, meteograms) and funny pictures.
The weather website www.gismeteo.ru, which has been providing accurate forecasts since 1998, is no less popular. The company that founded Gismeteo has been creating its own meteorological data processing systems for forecasters since the 90s. The main product of this company is a Geographic Information System called "Meteo", from which the name of the site comes. Gismeteo provides long-term forecasts based on an assessment of weather characteristics with a lead time of more than a month. Every day, the forecast is shifted one day ahead, which became possible due to the use of a sliding display mode and development using statistical methods.
Best Weather Site
The most informative and most accurate is the weather website www.rp5.ru, which provides a weather forecast for the next six days and supplements it with information about the current weather. Forecasts for the site are developed by the UK Meteorological Office, which transmits data on actual weather conditions through ground meteorological stations and the system of international exchange of weather reports.
Fresh information about the weather is sent to rp5.ru eight times a day, with a frequency of three hours, ten minutes after the weather was evaluated by the meteorological station.
Today the site provides accurate weather forecast for 500,000 settlements, receiving meteorological data from 8,200 SYNOP weather stations and 4,700 METAR weather stations. On rp5.ru information is presented in the form of comprehensible tables, where the exact points in time are indicated. In addition, the site provides an opportunity to access the weather archive in a particular locality, as well as to recalculate all the necessary parameters of weather conditions in a special section "Measurement units".
