摘要：Faster and reliable real-time weather forecasts and flood warnings are expected to help people to prepare against typhoon-whipped disasters, the Department of Science and Technology said following an agreement with wireless communications giant Smart on co-location of telemetric rain gauges at the latter’s cell sites.DOST through its weather forecasting agency, the Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical Astronomical Services Administration signed an agreement October 5 with Smart Communications initially covering the latter’s 63 cell sites nationwide.“The co-location of our telemetric gauges in Smart cell sites will complement our on-going program to strengthen the capacity of PAGASA in issuing weather forecasts and flood warnings to the public,” DOST Secretary Mario G. Montejo said. Each telemetric rain gauge automatically sends rainfall data to PAGASA’s 44 Automatic Weather Stations in the form of short messaging system or SMS. The data are then posted real-time in PAGASA’s website [www.pagasa.dost.gov.ph].
