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| The total number of unofficial (non-state) weather stations providing RP5 websites with close to real time observational data has increased to 223. There are 128 weather stations in Russia, 55 in Ukraine, 18 in Estonia, 6 in Belarus, 5 in Lithuania, 4 in Latvia, 3 in Poland, 2 in Kazakhstan, 1 in Kyrgyzstan and 1 in Finland. See examples of weather archives at unofficial weather stations located in Vanino, Kanevskaya, Penza, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Sochi, Kolomyia (Ukraine), Korosten (Ukraine), Hyvinkaa / Mutila (Finland). | |
| The Met Office of the UK began to provide RP5 websites and applications with forecasts of its new model (PS41). The above mentioned forecast model PS41 officially became the operational model of the Met Office. The Met Office reported that the improvements expected should be to early winter forecasts (the period of the first snowfall and first snow cover). It is assumed that, in comparison with the previous model, the following weather parameters for the above period will be predicted more accurately: 1) type of precipitation (snow or rain), 2) air temperature, 3) atmospheric pressure, 4) wind. | |
| RP5 websites provide close to real time observational data, obtained from an unofficial (i.e. non-state) weather station in Simferopol. See Weather Archive and Weather in Simferopol. | |
| We have released a new version of "Weather rp5 (2018)" application for Android devices. What's new 1. We have added 94 very beautiful nature photos for widgets. The total number of photos for widgets is 110. 2. Weather data is updated when opening the application from the background mode. 3. At the request of users from India, Romania and other countries, the application language is replaced by default from Russian to English. If the phone is not set to Russian, Ukrainian, Turkish or English, the application is set to English, and not Russian, as before. You can install the above mentioned version of the app 1) from the website (rp5): page header -> Applications (i) -> *.apk-file (This is convenient for those users who have been blocked from downloading files from "Google Play") or 2) from Google Play". |
| The language of the rp5 web servers has been updated from PHP 5 to PHP 7. The above mentioned update has improved the performance of rp5 websites: the average download time of web pages has decreased by 1.6 times, the load on the central processor has decreased by 1.7 times. | |
| Additional work on adjusting forecasts based on METAR data has been completed (see below on March 12, 2018). Now, automatic correction (smoothing) of detectable errors of the air temperature forecast for the next few hours is made as follows: 1) if METAR and SYNOP observations are made at the same distance from the location, METAR observations are taken into account; 2) if METAR and SYNOP observations are made at different distances from the location, the observations of the nearest weather station is taken into account (METAR or SYNOP). | |
| In order to provide users with the current air temperature value as close as possible to the observed values, the rp5 servers have automatically begun to smooth out the detected gross errors in the air temperature forecast for the next few hours. The blunder (that is, a significant deviation of the forecast from the observation) is smoothed out by its uniform linear distribution in the forecasts for the next few hours according to the observations at the SYNOP weather stations for all locations situated at a distance of up to 50 km from the SYNOP weather station. At present, similar work concerning METAR weather stations is in progress. | |
| We have released a new application for Android devices (phones and tablets) called “Weather rp5 (2018)”. It took a year and a half to develop the new application: since June 2016. During the last 8 months the work was carried out continuously and more intensively: from May to December of the current year. The application looks like the new mobile version of RP5 websites (see the news of December 1, 2017), but it allows pre-loaded weather forecasts to be viewed on a phone or tablet offline. This application is significantly different from the previous "rp5 (Reliable Prognosis)" application, which was released in May, 2015. The changes are as follows: 1. Due to numerous requests from users, forecasts with a time step of 6 hours are supplemented by forecasts with a 3 and 1-hour time step. 2. Short text-based forecast "Today / tomorrow we expect" is added. 3. The forecast table is oriented horizontally thus allowing users to see long-term forecasts as well as understand if the weather is going to be stable or changeable. 4. Landscape mode is available. 5. The most requested buttons are moved to the bottom of the screen. 6. You can change the background color and set background photos. | |
| We have released a new mobile version of RP5 websites for phones and tablets: m.rp5.co.uk, m.rp5.ru, m.rp5.kz, etc. It took a year to develop the new version: since October 2016. During the last 7 months the work was carried out continuously and more intensively: from May to November of the current year. The main changes in the mobile version are related to its design. 1) More attractive design 2) Frequently used buttons are at the bottom of the page 3) The table with forecasts is identical to the one in the full (desktop) version 4) Ability to change the background color and to set background photos. | |
| It took 6 months to complete the modernization of RP5 (Reliable Prognosis) project software. During the last month, at the last stage of modernization, the services for the website, mobile version and application have been transferred on the new program core of the project. We expect that the completed modernization will significantly enhance fault tolerance and speed and facilitate the further development of RP5 project. For more information, please see the news of September 20 and October 10, 2017. | |
| A new control of the air temperature observational data is released. It was in development for 8 months: from February to September of the current year. The idea is in a statistical analysis of deviations of observational data from forecasts within a single weather station (hereinafter referred to as stations) and in view of the above mentioned deviations at neighboring stations. The new control is carried out in two stages. At the first stage, it is checked whether the new value of observations is consistent with the forecast and previous observations at the same station. If the discrepancy is significant, the verified value is marked as doubtful and goes to the second stage of control, where it is compared with observations at neighboring stations during the same observation period. If the discrepancy is detected in the second stage, the new value is rejected and not displayed on rp5 products. Based on the thorough testing performed, we expect that the new control of the air temperature observational data will be successful. | |
| Mobile version and Android application have been adapted to the new code structure of the full version. For more information, please see the news for September 20, 2017. | |
| All servers of “Reliable Prognosis” company began to provide a new version of RP5 website that had been developing within five months: from April to September of the current year. The new version was necessary to get rid of the multiple layers that had been accumulated in the program code within 13 years of the website existence. As a result, the program code has been changed completely. The new program code ensures that the full version will function in accordance with modern requirements and standards for the purpose of increasing resiliency, high-speed performance and further development of the website. At present, the second stage of work is in progress: internal services are being processed, ensuring good work of the website and filling the website with weather data. The third and final stage is scheduled: adaptation of the mobile version and application to the new code structure of the full version. | |
| The UK Met Office began to provide RP5 website and application with weather forecasts based on the new weather prediction model (PS39). The above-mentioned forecasts are prepared by the Met Office on the Cray XC40 supercomputer the capability of which is the most powerful in the world dedicated to weather. The final phase of the supercomputer was successfully installed in December 2016. See “Cray XC40” and “Installation of the final phase of the Met Office Supercomputer”. The Office expects that the improved physical model, more detailed observational data (primarily from space satellites), better representation of shorelines and topography and improved forecasts of tropical cyclone trajectories will increase the accuracy of weather forecasts. | |
| We have released a new version of the application “rp5 (Reliable Prognosis)” for Android. What's New Fault-tolerance of the application is enhanced. 1. Scrolling is improved in the latest versions of Android. 2. Hanging of the app interface during a slow or unstable Internet connection is fixed. You can install the app from 1) the website (rp5) : the heading of the webpage -> Apps(i) -> *.apk-file (in most cases it is convenient for those users who have been blocked from downloading files from Google Play) or 2) Google Play | |
| Sea surface temperature observations from 103 coastal weather stations located in 20 countries of Europe, South-West Asia, North Africa and the Middle East are available now. These countries are Algeria, Bulgaria, the UK, Germany, Gibraltar, Greece, Egypt, Jordan, Ireland, Spain, Italy, Cyprus, Morocco, Poland, Romania, Tunisia, Turkey, France, Croatia, Montenegro. For example, Varna (Bulgaria), Rhodes (Greece), Hurghada and Sharm el-Sheikh (Egypt), Ibiza and Palma de Mallorca (Spain), Venice (Italy), Casablanca (Morocco), Cannes and Nice (France) , Split (Croatia), Bar (Montenegro). | |
| We have released a new version of the application “rp5 (Reliable Prognosis)” for Android. What's New - The value of the current temperature is now available in the status bar and in the notification area. - Internet traffic is minimized. - Updating has become much quicker. - There are improvements in the work with the location list. - 6 new widgets with photos of spring nature are available. - The app allows to change languages. You can install the app either from 1) the website (rp5) : the heading of the webpage -> Apps(i) -> *.apk-file or 2) Google Play | |
| The design of the mobile version is updated and the bugs are fixed: m.rp5.ru, m.rp5.ua, m.rp5.kz, m.rp5.by, etc. | |
| In order to improve readability of forecasts, the text in the headings of the table is shortened: the dates of the forecast are placed in tooltips. To see the date on the desktop computer, please hover over the words "today", "tomorrow" or the day of the week. To see the date on a tablet or touch screen phone, you should also touch any of the words ("today", "tomorrow" or the day of the week). | |
| We have released a new version of the application “Reliable Prognosis (RP5)” for Android. What's New -11 widgets with nature photos. -Widgets display information correctly on phones with a modified grid size. -Weather data loading has been improved to reduce the consumption of Internet traffic and energy. -Bugs fixed. The new version has been installed on 262 thousand devices until November 9. You can install the application from the website (rp5). To do it, please click the "Apps (i)" button, then in the drop-down menu choose "*.apk-file". You can also install the application from "Google Play". To do it, please click here. | |
| The amount of installs of Reliable Prognosis (RP5) application on Android devices has exceeded 1 million. | |
| In the mobile version of the website (m.rp5.ru) the calculations of the current air temperature and the “feels like” temperature have been brought into conformity with the full version of the website. Forecasts with 1-hour time step are used in the calculations. | |
| In the mobile version of the website (m.rp5.ru) in addition to 6-day weather forecasts, we have posted more detailed 3-day and 1-day weather forecasts with 3-hour and 1-hour time steps. | |
| In the Android application Reliable Prognosis (RP5) the calculations of the current air temperature and the “feels like” temperature have been brought into conformity with the full version of RP5 website. Forecasts with 1-hour time step are used in the calculations. | |
| In the full version of the website (rp5.ru) the calculation of the current value of the "feels like" temperature has been improved due to the use of forecasts with 1 hour time step. | |
| The full version of RP5 websites has now more detailed 3-day and 1-day weather forecasts with 3-hour and 1-hour time steps in addition to already existed 6-day forecasts. To view them, please press the tab "3 day weather forecast" or "1 day weather forecast”. | |
| We have released a new version of RP5 application for Android. It took us 4 months to develop the version. The application performance has been improved significantly. We expect that our users will appreciate it. Please see the application “Reliable Prognosis (RP5)” on Google Play. | |
| In order to serve our visitors better, we have removed all unclaimed locations. It turned out that there were a lot of unnecessary locations on our websites: 66%. Thus, the number of locations on RP5 websites has decreased 3 times: from 499’648 to 171'475 locations. Reduction of the database has led to some positive results. The time of the downloads of the latest weather forecasts has reduced to approximately 12 minutes. Besides, search of location by name has begun to work faster. Opening of webpages is also performed faster than before. This is particularly noticeable for pages with lists of countries, regions and districts. | |
| Warnings about dangerous weather phenomena are added in the text block that describes weather forecasts for today and tomorrow. (“Today we expect ….”). For example, when the forecast says that a strong breeze will blow with the average wind speed exceeding 17 m / s, you will receive the following warning: “Be careful! Strong wind may cause damage. Be prepared to take shelter.” | |
| Forecast loads are optimized. The latest weather forecasts are published on RP5 websites half an hour earlier that before: by 8:30 Moscow time (5:30 UTC) in the morning and by 20:30 (17:30 UTC) in the evening. | |
| Mobile version corresponds to the full version of the website. The mobile version includes forecasts of clouds with vertical development, forecasts of fog and wind gusts. Types of precipitation are defined more precisely: continuous or showery precipitation. Freezing rain and freezing fog are highlighted with the exclamation mark as hazardous weather phenomena. | |
| The following improvements have made RP5 weather forecasts more accurate and useful: 1)High-resolution forecasts (17 km grid spacing) are available now. The previous version had a grid spacing of 60 km. 2)We have added forecasts of fog, wind gust, clouds with vertical development. Types of precipitation have better definition: rain / snow shower or continuous rain / snow. Freezing rain and freezing fog are marked with the exclamation point as dangerous weather phenomena. | |
| The mobile application for Android has been released. Users can install it on their smartphone by downloading it from Google Play. The application is called Reliable Prognosis (RP5). | |
| The archive data is available in EXCEL format. See pages "Weather archive", tab "Download weather archive", "3. Format: XLS (Excel)". | |
| Loading of both mobile version and full version has been optimized. As a result, website pages are transmitted to users' devices twice as fast as before. | |
| A new browser version is available for the mobile phones designed during the last two or three years. | |
| The weather news now includes information about hazardous weather events in the coastal areas of Russia: strong wind, rough sea, rapid ice drift and severe ice pressure, fracture of fast ice, icebergs in ice-free water. | |
| According to visitors' requests, we have added the "feels like" parameter to the table. "Feels like" is the perceived temperature influenced by wind and humidity. | |
| Sea state observational data received from the coastal stations of Russia are more informative now. Besides sea surface temperature, available on the website since June 2014, there is information about visibility, waves and detailed characteristics of ice. Please see Dikson (the Kara Sea) and Razdolnoye (the Black Sea) as an example. | |
| We have optimized data loading into the map "The latest observations of air temperature". Now the data is loaded much faster. In order to open the map, click on the button "see on map". | |
| The graphic design of Weather archive page has been updated. In order to open the weather archive, click on "Weather archive at the weather station" or "Weather archive at the airport". | |
| The map includes the latest observations of air temperature. In order to open the map you should click the button "see on map". | |
| Today marks 10 years since the launch of RP5 website. During all these years the motto of our company has been as follows: "Reliable Prognosis (RP5) is the most accurate and relevant information available through the Internet to the maximum number of end users." Our users should decide if we have accomplished our task. According to the letters that we receive, RP5 enjoys popularity with many people. That encourages us most of all. And we plan to keep on working hard. Our present achievements help us to make further progress and provide our users with more relevant and timely weather information. | |
| Instant search of locations is implemented on Reliable Prognosis websites. It allows users to look through the options while typing. | |
| Weather news is available on the web pages with weather forecasts for each location. | |
| We have updated design of the web pages with weather forecasts. The pages are more colorful now and it is easier to read them. The current weather information is accentuated, and thereby easier to understand. | |
| A new service has been launched on Reliable Prognosis websites. The data with recent air temperature observations is automatically placed in all the lists of countries, regions and districts, and at the bottom of the website pages. | |
| Reliable Prognosis provides news about hazardous weather events: gale force winds, severe snowstorms, heavy precipitation, heavy glaze of ice, etc. To view "Weather News", please click "All countries" or the name of a country, region or district. | |
| Reliable Prognosis websites (RP5) have started to provide the most interesting news about weather in the world, country, region and district over the last few hours. It is reported where the maximum wind speed, minimum and maximum temperatures, maximum snow depth were observed. | |
| "Weather statistics" service includes METAR weather stations which are located at the airports, as a rule. For example, see "Weather archive in Pulkovo", tab "Weather statistics". | |
| The cloud cover forecast is more accurate and detailed now. 1. The cloud amount (for example, "overcast") is determined by the values of low-level and / or medium-level clouds. There is no more total value of all clouds as before. 2. The tooltip shows a numeric value for each cloud family separately. For example, "low-level cloud: 10%, mid-level cloud:8%, high-level cloud:99%". | |
| Russian Federal Service for Hydrometeorology and Environmental Monitoring (Roshydromet) has provided "Reliable Prognosis" Ltd. with the license for creation and maintenance of data banks in hydrometeorology and related fields. | |
| "Weather statistics" service now provides a wider range of weather observations. For example, you can get information about the prevailing wind direction, the total and maximum value of precipitation, the number of days with precipitation, the earliest and latest date with snow cover. Please see the tab "Weather statistics" on page "Weather archive at the weather station". | |
| Reliable Prognosis (RP5) websites have begun to provide a unique service: calculation of weather statistics according to given discreteness. Currently, you can get statistics of air temperature, atmospheric pressure, relative humidity and wind speed for a given period, month, date, and time of observation. For example, to calculate the statistics of observation data for the weather station of St. Petersburg for the period from 01.06.2005 to 30.06.2013 for the time of observation 16:00 local time (12:00 UTC), see the tab "Weather statistics " on the page of "Weather archive in St. Petersburg". | |
| The Ukrainian version is available for all countries. | |
| We have made changes to the text describing the latest weather observation. Now the numerical values are replaced by more comprehensible verbal characteristics of the weather. For example, the phrase "Scattered clouds ((40-50%) 480 m, broken clouds (60-90%) 3000 m, pressure 761.2 mmHg, humidity 71%" is replaced by "mostly cloudy, normal air pressure, high humidity". | |
| For the convenience of visitors, high or low air pressure and high or low humidity are highlighted in the table with the weather forecast. The normal air pressure values and comfortable humidity values are shown in black. The appropriate description of pressure and humidity is added to the tooltips, for example, "Very high air pressure". | |
| The Turkish version is available for all countries. | |
| The number of countries available in the Ukrainian and Turkish languages has been increased to 175 and 213 respectively. | |
| The number of countries available in the Ukrainian and Turkish languages has been increased to 130 and 193 respectively. | |
| The total number of countries available in the Ukrainian and Turkish languages has been increased to 112 and 178 respectively. | |
| In order to promptly provide the latest weather information for the locations the visitors take interest in, RSS-feed has become available in the mobile version of the website. For example, you can subscribe to RSS-feed in the mobile version on the page "Weather in London". | |
| The number of countries with versions in Ukrainian and Turkish has been increased to 88 and 172 respectively. | |
| Google Maps are optimized for faster loading in the full and mobile versions of RP5 websites. It has shortened RP5 page loading time in visitors' browsers several times. For example, if a page used to load within 5 or 6 seconds, now it takes 1 second to load. | |
| RP5 server in Khabarovsk has been put into commercial operation. It will help to expedite the service for visitors from the Far Eastern Federal District of Russia and its neighboring countries. | |
| For the convenience of RP5 visitors pages with the list of countries, regions, districts, cities and villages have semantic (meaningful) URLs. For example, the old addresses rp5.ru/map/0/0/0/en, rp5.ru/map/3/0/0/en, rp5.ru/map/3/70/0/en, rp5.ru/map/3/110/2914/en are replaced by rp5.ru/Weather_in_the_world, rp5.ru/Weather_in_Russia, rp5.ru/Weather_in_Leningrad_region,rp5.ru/Weather_in_Anadyr_District. | |
| As Ukrainian and Turkish languages are in great demand with the visitors of RP5 websites, the total number of countries with versions in Ukrainian and Turkish has been increased to 52 and 119 respectively. | |
| We have finished verification and correction of geographical coordinates, altitudes above sea level and names of all 4734 METAR weather stations available on RP5 websites. For example, Weather archive in Domodedovo (airport), METAR. | |
| For the convenience of RP5 visitors pages displaying weather forecasts, weather archive and weather diary now have semantic (intuitively meaningful) URLs. For example, rp5.ru/Weather_in_Saint_Petersburg,_Russia , instead of rp5.ru/7285/en, rp5.ru/Weather_archive_in_Saint_Petersburg instead of rp5.ru/archive.php?wmo_id=26063&lang=en and rp5.ru/Weather_Diary_in_Saint_Petersburg instead of rp5.ru/diary.php?wmo_id=26063&lang=en. | |
| As the Turkish version of RP5 website enjoys growing popularity among visitors, the total number of countries available in Turkish has been increased to 72. | |
| The visitors of RP5 websites have shown significant interest in the Turkish version of the website during the last few months. The number of unique visitors viewing Turkish pages in January is in the fourth place (after Russian, Ukrainian and English). Considering the demand, we have added the Turkish language for the regional centers of 28 countries. The total number of countries available in Turkish has been increased to 52. | |
| A new decoder of weather messages, received in SYNOP number format, has been put into operation on RP5 server. The decoder is developed by RP5 staff in accordance with the codes "FM 12-IX SYNOP" (WМО, 2012) and "КН-01 SYNOP" (Federal Service for Hydrometeorology and Environmental Monitoring of Russia, 2012). Now we have more accurate weather observation data concerning the amount of precipitation, the state of soil and snow, and the snow depth in the "Weather archive" tables. Besides, the information about such dangerous weather phenomena as hail, wet snow buildup, rime deposit, glaze ice is also available. There are two more columns in the "Weather archive" table. They are Pa (pressure tendency) and Tg (minimum soil surface temperature at night). Observations for the latter column are usually made in summer. As we now use an additional flow of SYNOP messages, weather observations for some of European cities are updated once per hour (not every three hours, as before). For example, see weather archive in Berlin (Germany), Bern (Switzerland), and Madrid (Spain). | |
| We have added weather observation data for 400 airports and airbases. For example, Dubendorf (the airbase in Switzerland), Zagatala (Azerbaijan), Nakhon Si Thammarat (Thailand), Ondangwa (Namibia). Now RP5 websites provide weather observations for 4 659 airports and airbases around the world. | |
| RP5 server in Novosibirsk has been put into commercial operation. It will help to expedite the service for visitors from the Siberian and Far Eastern federal districts of Russia. | |
| We have added weather observation data for 609 airports. For example, Gyor (Hungary), Samsun / Carsamba (Turkey), Santa Fe (USA). Now RP5 websites provide weather observations for 4 259 airports around the world. | |
| We have added weather observation data for 524 airports. For example, Acapulco (Mexico), London (UK), Seoul (South Korea), Tokyo (Japan). Now RP5 websites provide weather observations for 3 650 airports around the world. | |
| The first Latvian version of the website has been launched. It provides weather information for 3'559 locations in Latvia. | |
| We have added weather observation data for 455 airports. For example, Annapolis (USA), Belo Horizonte (Brazil), Mogilev (Belarus). Now RP5 websites provide weather observations for 3 126 airports around the world. | |
| RP5 server in St. Petersburg has been put into commercial operation. It will help to expedite the service for visitors from the North-West and Central Federal Districts of Russia, the Baltic countries and Finland. | |
| We have changed the RSS-feed contents of the RP5 websites. Now the RSS-feed provides more relevant information about the weather: (1) the last observation data at the nearest weather station or airport, and (2) forecast for the next time-step. | |
| It is the first time that RP5 websites have started to provide data of weather observations performed at airports and received as METAR (METeorological Aerodrome Report) codes. The main advantage of these observations is that they are made more often than those at conventional weather stations. If the observations at conventional weather stations are made every three hours, airport weather observations are made once per hour. RP5 websites display weather observations for 2,681 airports worldwide. For example, for the airports of London, Brasilia, Buenos Aires, Ottawa, Hong Kong, Sydney. | |
| For ease of use of "Archive" and "Weather diary" the former addresses (URLs) of these pages have been replaced by "clean" or "semantic" ones. The new URL contains a domain name and a short page description, understandable to non-specialists. Thus, the new URL looks friendlier and is easy to remember, e.g. rp5.co.uk/Weather_archive_in_London_Heathrow_Airport. To go to another page, you should make a correction in the address bar manually, e.g. rp5.co.uk/Weather_archive_in_Edinburgh. | |
| The total number of countries with weather information in Romanian has increased to 48. | |
| It is the first time that RP5 server has been placed in North America. North America is the third continent after Europe and Asia, where RP5 servers have been placed, providing access to the weather websites of the same name. Currently, all the websites are located on seven servers in five countries and three continents. This location means faster access and failover for our websites. | |
| The first version in Hindi has been launched. It provides weather information for India, Nepal, Pakistan and Fiji. A lot of work has been done for it: (1) search and correction of location names in Hindi and (2) programming implementation of Hindi on the website. | |
| Using the sources available on the Internet, we have checked and edited the database of locations in India in English. In particular, we have used a new Geographical Code Directory of India, issued by the Government of India based on Census 2011. As a result of this work, the following corrections and additions were made in the RP5 database on India. 1) Correction of mistakes in the names of Indian states and districts in English. 2) Addition of new districts and their administrative centers. All the locations that once belonged to one districts, but now are included in others, have correct administrative affiliation. 3) Correction of some location names in English. 4) Correction of the geographical coordinates for more than 8700 locations of India. | |
| The Arabic version is available for all countries. | |
| RP5 websites are closer to their visitors. With the launch of GEO DNS system on RP5 servers, visitors upload the pages of any RP5 website from the data center, which is geographically closer to them. For example, if you are in the central part of Russia, the webpage will be uploaded to your computer from Yekaterinburg, Russia. If you are in Krasnodar region, Russia, it will be uploaded from Kiev, Ukraine. Finally, if you are in Western Europe, the uploading of any page of RP5 website will take place from Berlin, Germany. | |
| The total number of countries with weather information in Arabic has increased to 243. | |
| The total number of countries with weather information in Arabic has increased to 232. | |
| The total number of countries with weather information in Arabic has increased to 216. | |
| The number of locations in Turkey in the Turkish language has been increased to 34'163. The locations are included in all 960 districts and 82 provinces (including Northern Cyprus). To do this, a lot of work has been done on coordination and control of various databases. The fact is that some bases had the correct location names and their administrative affiliation, but the geographical coordinates were wrong. And the other databases, on the contrary, had the correct geographic coordinates of locations, but there were big problems with the location names in the Turkish language. | |
| We have launched the first version of the website in Arabic. To do this, a lot of work has been done on the translation and the use of Arabic on the website. Since the standard programming libraries are ill-suited to the implementation of the Arabic language, we have created a few personal libraries that allow to display the text in Arabic correctly. In addition, we have identified and corrected errors in the Hebrew version of the website caused by the use of standard libraries. | |
| The system time of all RP5 servers, located in different countries and time zones, and the applications running on these servers, have been switched to UTC (Universal Time Coordinated). Since the work of meteorological services around the world is performed at the same time, the present transition to a single time will simplify the control of incoming weather data on RP5 servers and improve the performance of RP5 websites in future. | |
| We have replaced the technology of tooltips to the icons of cloudiness, precipitation, moon phases and wind values. The advantages of the new technology are 1) a more rapid response to a mouse hover and 2) the possibility to activate the tips in touchscreen devices where the "mouse" is not used. Please note, that the added option requires a restart of the page by users. To do this, please press the "Refresh" button in your browser. | |
| We have added warnings and contrasting colours to the values of temperature forecasts, which pose a danger to human health. For example, the warning "Danger of frostbite" is for temperatures minus 60-35 °C and " Continuing activity could result in heat stroke " is for temperatures plus 32-41 °C. See the South Pole, Antarctica, and Khartoum, Sudan. Please note, that the added option requires a restart of pages by users. To do this, just press F5. | |
| The RP5.KR website content is extended to 14 411 locations of South Korea in the Korean language. These locations are situated in all 17 provinces and 259 districts of South Korea. | |
| The Turkish version is now available for the following ten countries: Australia, Canada, Denmark, Netherlands, Serbia, USA, Uzbekistan, Ukraine, France and Switzerland. The total number of countries with the version in Turkish has increased to 24. | |
| The first websites in Turkish language have been launched. The Turkish version is now available for the following fourteen countries: Austria, Azerbaijan, Belgium, Bulgaria, Great Britain, Germany, Greece, Iraq, Cyprus, Macedonia, Romania, Russia, Turkey, Sweden. | |
| The first websites in Korean language have been launched: Reliable Prognosis in China, North Korea and Japan. | |
| We have worked out a Weather Diary for schoolchildren and their parents. | |
| The first website in Belorussian language has been launched. The website RP5.BY provides weather forecasts for 9 736 locations of Belarus in Belorussian. | |
| South Sudan has been added. The total number of countries on Reliable Prognosis websites has increased to two hundred forty four. | |
| We have launched a mobile version of our website. It is developed for high-end devices with more sophisticated browsers that can access the Internet in the same way as a standard desktop browser. | |
| Our website is fully redesigned. Due to it, a new visual and aesthetic level is reached. The new design was developed by a well-known design group called "Terminal design" from Saint Petersburg. | |
| The Chinese version is available for all 243 countries. See Reliable Prognosis in the world in Chinese. | |
| The Portuguese version is available for the following thirty countries and their regional centres: Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Estonia, France, Germany, Ireland, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Netherlands, UK, United States. | |
| The French version is available for the following nine countries: Algeria, Andorra, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Germany, Luxembourg, Monaco, Switzerland. | |
| The content of the website RP5.FR in French has been extended to 37 326 locations of France and the content of the website RP5.CH in French has been extended to 5 435 locations of Switzerland. | |
| The Portuguese version is available for the regional centres of the following 34 countries: American Samoa, Antarctica, Azores, Cook Islands, Curacao, Eritrea, Falkland Islands, Faroe Islands, Fiji Islands, Finland, Greenland, Iceland, Indonesia, Luxembourg, Madeira, Malaysia, Mayotte, Micronesia, Monaco, Montserrat, Nauru, Niue, Norway, Palau, Portugal, San Marino, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, Svalbard, Sweden, Tokelau, Tonga, Tuvalu, Virgin Islands, Wallis and Futuna. | |
| The first French website "RP5.FR: Réelles prévisions en France" has been launched. | |
| The Spanish version is available for the regional centres of the last 51 countries: Aland Islands, American Samoa, Antarctica, Azores, Barbados, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Cocos Islands, Cook Islands, Curacao, Dominica, Eritrea, Falkland Islands, Faroe Islands, Fiji Islands, Guam, Indonesia, Jersey, Kiribati, Madeira, Malaysia, Mayotte, Micronesia, Monaco, Montserrat, Nauru, New Caledonia, New Zealand, Niue, Norfolk Island, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Pitcairn Islands, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Pierre and Miquelon, Samoa, San Marino, Singapore, Sint Maarten, Solomon Islands, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, Suriname, Taiwan, The Bahamas, Tokelau, Tonga, Turks and Caicos Islands, Tuvalu, Virgin Islands, Wallis and Futuna. Now all the countries, that are presented on the RP5 websites, have a version in Spanish. | |
| We have released the first version of RP5 widget for the ANDROID operating system. | |
| 1 August 2011 was the 150th anniversary of the first weather forecast published in a newspaper by the Met Office. | |
| The English version of the website RP5.CO.NZ has been launched. It provides weather forecast for all 1 334 locations of New Zealand: Reliable Prognosis in New Zealand. | |
| The Spanish version is available for the regional centres of the following 100 countries: Afghanistan, Algeria, Angola, Anguilla, Armenia, Aruba, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Benin, Bhutan, Botswana, Bouvet Island, British Indian Ocean Territory, Brunei, Burkina Faso, Burma (Myanmar), Burundi, Cambodia, Cape Verde, Central African Republic, Chad, China, Christmas Island, Comoros, Congo, Democratic Republic, Congo, Republic, Cote d'Ivoire, Djibouti, East Timor, French Polynesia, French Southern and Antarctic Lands, Gambia, Georgia, Ghana, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Guernsey, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Hong Kong, India, Iran, Iraq, Jamaica, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Liechtenstein, Macau, Malawi, Marshall Islands, Martinique, Mauritania, Mauritius, Moldova, Mongolia, Mozambique, Namibia, Nepal, Niger, Nigeria, North Korea, Oman, Pakistan, Puerto Rico, Qatar, Reunion, Rwanda, Saint Helena, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Sao Tome and Principe, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, South Korea, Sudan, Svalbard, Swaziland, Syria, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Thailand, Togo, Tunisia, Turkmenistan, Uganda, United Arab Emirates, Uzbekistan, Vanuatu, Vietnam, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe. Thus, the total number of countries with the version in Spanish has increased to 192. | |
| We have launched the first website in Portuguese language. The website RP5.NET.BR provides weather forecasts for all 9 711 locations of Brazil in Portuguese. | |
| The last seven countries have been divided into regions in English, German and Russian languages: Azores, Guernsey, Jersey, Pitcairn Islands, Saint Pierre and Miquelon, The Bahamas, Turks and Caicos Islands. Now all the countries that are presented on the RP5 websites are divided into regions in English, German and Russian languages. | |
| The Spanish version of the website RP5.MX has been launched. It provides weather forecast for all 25 094 locations of Mexico: Real Pronóstico en México. | |
| The following 36 countries are divided into regions in English, German and Russian languages: American Samoa, Andorra, Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Belize, Bermuda, British Virgin Islands, Brunei, Bhutan, East Timor, Haiti, Guadeloupe, Grenada, Cape Verde, Cayman Islands, Madeira, Mayotte, Martinique, Montserrat, Nauru, Netherlands Antilles, Nicaragua, Niue, Cook Islands, Samoa, San Marino, Saint Helena, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Tokelau, Trinidad and Tobago, Wallis and Futuna , Faeroe Islands, Falkland Islands, French Guiana. As a result, the number of countries, divided into regions in English, German and Russian, has risen to 216. Moreover, all 243 countries represented on the RP5 websites, have a version in German: Wetter in 243 Ländern. | |
| The Spanish version is available for the regional centres of the following 33 countries: Andorra, Antigua and Barbuda, Belize, Bermuda, Vatican City,Gabon, Haiti, Guyana, Gibraltar, Egypt, Western Sahara, Israel, Cameroon, Canada, Kenya, Madagascar, Mali, Maldives, Morocco, Netherlands Antilles, Nicaragua, Russia, Somalia, Trinidad and Tobago, Turkey, Ukraine, Philippines, French Guiana, Sri Lanka, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, South Africa, Japan. Thus, the total number of countries with the version in Spanish has increased to 92. | |
| The following eleven countries are divided into regions in English, German and Russian languages: Guyana, Guatemala, Dominica, Kiribati, Costa Rica, Panama, El Salvador, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu, Jamaica. Thus, the total number of countries, divided into regions in English, German and Russian, has risen to 180. | |
| The Spanish version is available for the regional centres of the following countries:Albania, Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Guatemala, Honduras, Greenland, Ireland, Iceland, Cyprus, Costa Rica, Latvia, Lebanon, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Malta, Norway, Panama, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Uruguay, Finland, Croatia, Montenegro, Estonia. The total number of countries with the version in Spanish has increased to 59. | |
| 32 more weather stations that provide actual weather observation data have been added to the RP5 websites . Bosnia and Herzegovina (1): Neum, Botswana (2): Werda, Goodhope, Gabon (1): Franceville / Mvengue, Dominican Republic (2): Las Américas International Airport, Puerto Plata, Iraq (1) Basrah airport, Kazakhstan (6):Zhuz-Agach, Komsomolets, Novorossiysk, Petropavlovsk, Sagiz, Shelek, Cuba (12) Varadero Airport, Jucaro, Cabo Cruz, Caibarien, Contramaestre, Playa Giron, Punta Del Este, Puerto Padre, San Antonio de los Baños Airport, Cienfuegos Airport, Jose Marti International Airport, El Yabu, Malaysia (1) Kuala Lumpur Airport, Namibia (1): Sitrusdal, Pakistan (1): Amangarh, Portugal (1) Cabo Carvoeiro (weather station 08531), Russia (1): Grjazi, Saudi Arabia (1): Alula, Philippines (1): San Antonio de los Banos Airport). | |
| The following eight countries are divided into regions in English, German and Russian languages: Vanuatu, Honduras, Indonesia, New Caledonia, Papua - New Guinea, Suriname, Fiji, French Polynesia. | |
| Mobile versions (PDA and WAP) of the RP5 websites have begun to provide information in seven languages: English, Hebrew, Spanish, German, Romanian, Russian and Ukrainian. To access the mobile version of the website, you should enter the word "pda" or "wap" with dot at the beginning of the address. For example, pda.rp5.ru or wap.rp5.ru for the website RP5.RU; pda.rp5.es or wap.rp5.es for the website RP5.ES. | |
| The Spanish version is available for the following 14 countries: Belgium, Bolivia, Hungary, Germany, Denmark, Dominican Republic,Netherlands, Paraguay, Poland, El Salvador, Czech Republic, Sweden, Switzerland, Ecuador. | |
| Our websites use observation data from 263 ground-based weather stations. As a result, the total number of weather stations that provide the latest observations on actual weather for "Reliable Prognosis" websites has increased to 7 892. Currently the above-mentioned weather stations are distributed between the countries in the following way: Australia - 110, Austria - 99 Azerbaijan - 16, Algeria - 78, American Samoa - 1, Antarctica - 76 Antigua and Barbuda - 1, Argentina - 67, Armenia - 14, Aruba - 1, Afghanistan - 1, Bahamas - 1, Bangladesh - 29, Barbados - 1, Bahrain - 1, Belarus - 51, Belize - 1, Belgium - 19, Benin - 6, Bermuda - 1, Bulgaria - 31, Bolivia - 31, Bosnia and Herzegovina - 12, Botswana - 14, Brazil - 150, British Indian Ocean Territory - 1, Brunei - 1, Bouvet Island - 1, Burkina Faso - 9, Vanuatu - 1, United Kingdom - 149, Hungary - 32, Venezuela - 24, Virgin Islands - 1, Vietnam - 32, Gabon - 4, Guyana - 1, Guadeloupe - 1, Guatemala - 5 Germany - 210, Gibraltar - 1, Honduras - 12, Hong Kong - 5, Grenada - 1, Greenland - 36, Greece - 20, Georgia - 12, Denmark - 9, Jersey - 1, Dominica - 2, Dominican Republic - 4, Egypt - 27, Zambia - 1, Western Sahara - 1, Zimbabwe - 11, Israel - 5, India - 87, Indonesia - 108, Jordan - 9, Iraq - 11, Iran - 76, Ireland - 17, Iceland - 24, Spain - 35, Italy - 134, Yemen - 6, Cape Verde - 3, Kazakhstan - 177, Cayman Islands - 1, Cameroon - 2, Canada - 760, Qatar - 1, Kenya - 24, Cyprus - 16, Kyrgyzstan - 28, Kiribati - 1, China - 378, Cocos Islands - 1, Colombia - 22, Comoros - 2, Democratic Republic of the Congo - - 1, Republic of the Congo - 5, North Korea - 27, South Korea - 51, Costa Rica - 2, Cote d'Ivoire - 9, Cuba - 1, Kuwait - 18, Curacao - 1, Laos - 20, Latvia - 23, Lebanon - 3, Libya - 4, Lithuania - 12 Liechtenstein - 1, Luxembourg - 1, Mauritius - 6, Mauritania - 10, Madagascar - 9, Macau - 1, Macedonia - 10, Malaysia - 14, Mali - 18, Malta - 1, Morocco - 23, Martinique - 2, Marshall Islands - 3, Mexico - 69, Micronesia - 9, Mozambique - 5, Moldova - 17, Mongolia - 61, Myanmar - 24, Namibia - 10 Nauru - 1, Niger - 13 Nigeria - 10, Netherlands Antilles - 1, Netherlands - 47, Niue - 1, New Zealand - 35, New Caledonia - 9 Norway - 181, Norfolk Island - 1, United Arab Emirates - 6, Oman - 8, Christmas Island - 1, Cook Islands - 3, Pitcairn Islands - 1, Pakistan - 23 Palau - 1 Panama - 3, Papua - New Guinea - 2, Paraguay - 21, Peru - 16, Poland - 59, Portugal - 29 Puerto Rico - 1, Reunion - 5, Russia - 1363, Romania - 158, El Salvador - 3, Samoa - 3, Saudi Arabia - 29, Swaziland - 5, St. Helens on. - 1 Seychelles - 1, Senegal - 11, Saint-Pierre and Miquelon - 1, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines - 1, Saint Kitts and Nevis - 1, St. Lucia - 2, Serbia - 28, Singapore - 1, St. Maarten - 1, Syria - 14, Slovakia - 22, Slovenia - 20, Solomon Islands - 7, Sudan - 16, USA - 234, Tajikistan - 25 Thailand - 121, Taiwan - 2, Tanzania - 15, Togo - 8 , Tonga - 3, Trinidad and Tobago - 2, Tuvalu - 3, Tunisia - 25, Turkmenistan - 34, Turkey - 59, Uganda - 1 Uzbekistan - 59, Ukraine - 182, Wallis and Futuna - 2, Uruguay - 9, Fiji - 9, Philippines - 53, Finland - 147, Falkland Islands - 2, French Southern and Antarctic Lands - - 3, France - 167 French Guiana - 4, French Polynesia - 9, Croatia - 40, Central African Republic - 11, Chad - 7, Montenegro - 6, Czech Republic - 36, Chile - 17, Switzerland - 80, Sweden - 211, Spitsbergen - 1, Sri Lanka - 19, Ecuador - 41, Equatorial Guinea - 2, Estonia - 22, Ethiopia - 4, South Africa - 118, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands - 2, Japan - 52 weather stations. | |
| The Spanish version is available for 11 more countries: Argentina ,Brazil, Venezuela, Greece, Italy, Colombia, Peru, Portugal, Slovenia, France and Chile. | |
| The Spanish version of the "Real Pronóstico" websites has been launched for the first 8 countries: Australia, Austria, Belarus, Britain, Spain, Cuba, Mexico, USA. | |
| The German version is available for 15 countries: Antarctica, Bolivia, Venezuela, East Timor, Grenada, Micronesia, New Caledonia, Paraguay, Peru, Singapore, Tonga, Tuvalu,Uruguay,Fiji and French Polynesia. | |
| Antarctica has been added to the websites "Reliable Prognosis". It is represented by weather stations belonging to different states of the world. | |
| The website RP5.SG providing weather forecast for all locations of Singapore is now available in English: Reliable Prognosis in Singapore.. | |
| Natioanal domain rp5.sg (Singapore) has been added to the family of domain names RP5. | |
| The English version of the website RP5.CA has been launched. It provides weather forecast for 7 037 locations of Canada: Reliable Prognosis in Canada. | |
| 7 countries are divided into regions in English, German and Russian languages: Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Mexico,New Zealand, Chile and Ecuador. | |
| The German version is available for 50 countries: Aland Islands,American Samoa, Antigua and Barbuda, Aruba, Barbados, Belize, British Virgin Islands, Brunei, Bhutan, Vanuatu, Vatican City, Virgin Islands, Guyana, Guernsey,Guam, Jersey, Cayman Islands, Kiribati, Curacao, Laos, Madeira, Mayotte, Macau, Martinique,Marshall Islands, Monaco, Montserrat,Nauru,Nicaragua,Niue, Norfolk Island,Christmas Island, Cook Islands, Pitcairn Islands, Puerto Rico, Samoa, San Marino, Saint Pierre and Miquelon, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, St. Maarten, Solomon Islands, Turks and Caicos Islands, Tokelau, Trinidad and Tobago, Wallis and Futuna Islands, Faroe Islands, Falkland Islands, French Guiana, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands. | |
| The website RP5.RU has started to represent decoding of the data about observed actual weather according to "Manual on codes. International codes" by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), 2009 edition, WMO-No. 306. Due to this, the description of actual weather on the "Archive" pages has become much more detailed and professional. For example, instead of "summer lightning" which was previously used, we say "Lightning visible, no thunder heard". Instead of one word "Cirrus", we use several descriptions depending on the actual conditions: "Cirrus fibratus, sometimes uncinus, not progressively invading the sky" or "Cirrus uncinus or fibratus, or both, progressively invading the sky; they generally thicken as a whole" or "Cirrus spissatus cumulonimbogenitus" and etc. Moreover, in cases when the weather condition was not described at all, now we use: "Clouds generally dissolving or becoming less developed" or "State of sky on the whole unchanged". | |
| The German version is available for 159 countries: Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Andorra, Angola, Anguilla, Armenia, Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Azores, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Belarus, Belgium, Benin, Bermuda, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Botswana, Bouvet Island, British Indian Ocean Territory, Bulgaria, Burkina Faso, Burma (Myanmar), Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Canada, Cape Verde, Central African Republic, Chad, China, Cocos Islands, Comoros, Congo, Democratic Republic, Congo, Republic, Cote d'Ivoire, Croatia, Cuba, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Djibouti, Dominican Republic, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Estonia, Ethiopia, Finland, France, French Southern and Antarctic Lands, Gabon, Gambia, Georgia, Germany, Ghana, Gibraltar, Greece, Greenland, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Haiti, Hong Kong, Hungary, Iceland, India, Iran, Iraq, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lebanon, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaysia, Maldives, Mali, Malta, Mauritania, Mauritius, Moldova, Mongolia, Montenegro, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Nepal, Netherlands, Netherlands Antilles, Niger, Nigeria, North Korea, Norway, Oman, Pakistan, Palau, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Qatar, Reunion, Romania, Russia, Rwanda, Saint Helena, Sao Tome and Principe, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Serbia, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Slovakia, Slovenia, Somalia, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Svalbard, Swaziland, Sweden, Switzerland, Syria, Taiwan, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Thailand, The Bahamas, Togo, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Uganda, UK, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, United States, Uzbekistan, Vietnam, Western Sahara, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe. | |
| The English version of the website RP-5.JP has been launched. It provides weather forecast for all 2'288 locations of Japan: Reliable Prognosis in Japan. | |
| We have reduced the advertising space on our pages by more than 3 times and left only the contextual advertising with the aim to enable our visitors to view and analyze weather information without being distracted. The contextual ads are displayed, if their contents match the page contents. Moreover, the contextual advertising is provided in accordance with the latest search queries sent from the computer. The information presented in such ads may be useful to visitors. Despite all the advantages of contextual advertising, we have removed all the ads from the pages with the lists of countries, regions and districts, so that new visitors may navigate our websites quickly. | |
| The family of domain names RP5 includes 8 more national domains: Argentina>> rp5.com.ar Brazil>> rp5.net.br Canada>> rp5.ca Columbia>> rp5.co Mexico>> rp5.mx New Zealand>> rp5.co.nz Peru>> rp5.pe Chile>> rp-5.cl As a result, the total number of national domains of RP5 websites has now increased to 63. | |
| 90 countries have been added to the website. Now the website lists all 242 countries of the world. Here the term "country" has a historical and geographical definition (a separate territory), not a political definition (the state). For example, 3 countries, namely Greenland, Denmark and the Faeroe Islands belong to the state called Denmark or the Kingdom of Denmark. All 3 above-mentioned countries are represented on our website. | |
| The German version of the website RP5.CH has been launched. It provides weather information for 5'448 locations in Switzerland: Reale Prognose in Schweiz. | |
| The English version of Reliable Prognosis website is available for 66 more countries. | |
| The website RP5.BY is now available in English: Reliable Prognosis in Belarus. | |
| The German version of the websites RP-5.DE, RP5.AT and RP5.LI has been launched, providing weather information for 20 000 locations in Germany, 2 000 locations in Austria and 17 locations in Liechtenstein: Reale Prognose in Deutschland, in Österreich , in Liechtenstein. | |
| The English version of Reliable Prognosis website is available for the following 72 countries: Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Angola, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Belgium, Benin, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Botswana, British Indian Ocean Territory, Bulgaria, Burkina Faso, Burma (Myanmar), Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Comoros, Croatia, Cuba, Cyprus, Denmark, Djibouti, Dominican Republic, Egypt, Finland, France, Gabon, Gambia, Georgia, Germany, Ghana, Gibraltar, Greenland, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Hong Kong, Hungary, Iceland, Iran, Iraq, Ireland, Italy, Jordan, Kenya, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Macedonia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Montenegro, Mozambique, Namibia, Nepal, Netherlands, Poland, Qatar, Reunion, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Sri Lanka, Tanzania, Thailand, Vietnam, Western Sahara, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe. | |
| The English version of Reliable Prognosis website is available for the following countries: Austria, Czech Republic, Estonia, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey and Ukraine. | |
| The websites RP5.MD and RP5.RO are available in English (Reliable Prognosis in Moldova, Reliable Prognosis in Romania) and RP5.CO.IL is available in Hebrew (Reliable Prognosis בישראל). | |
| The website RP5.MD is now available in Romanian: Reala Prognoză în Moldova. | |
| The English version of the website RP5.KR has been launched. It provides weather information for 18 000 locations in South Korea: Reliable Prognosis in South Korea. | |
| The website has launched flash weather gadgets for WINDOWS VISTA & WINDOWS 7 Sidebar. The gadgets are animated. The weather forecast is provided for one to three locations on 4 time points. According to the operating system language, the gadgets provide information either in Russian or English. | |
| On the weather archive web pages of the websites RP5.KZ and RP5.RU it has become possible to upload data into a file. See Weather archive in Almaty or Weather archive in Saint Petersburg. | |
| 5 more countries have been added: Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Palau, Taiwan and the United States of America. A national domain of Bolgaria (rp5.bg) has been added to the domain names of RP5. | |
| It is the first time that Cyrillic domains have been added to the family of domain names "Reliable Prognosis". They are : расписаниепогоды.рф и рп5.рф. | |
| Due to significant growth in the use of Kazakh's website (rp5.kz), we found it necessary to acquire additional computer resources and to move the website from a virtual server to a dedicated physical one. That means, from now on, the website occupies the Server completely, not sharing its resources with any other websites. As before, the website rp5.kz is located in Almaty, Kazakhstan. | |
| Such countries as Bosnia and Herzegovina, Zambia, Cuba, Libya, Maldives, Nigeria, Syria, Ethiopia are divided into separate regions. | |
| Poland (rp5.pl) is added to the family of websites "Reliable Prognosis" | |
| The website RP5.KZ is the first among other websites "Reliable Prognosis" , that provides information about weather using 3 languages : Kazakh, Russian and English. | |
| Four English websites RP5 have been launched : Reliable Prognosis in Greece, in Israel, in South Africa, in United Kingdom. The following 10 countries are divided into regions : Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Democratic Republic of Congo, Iraq, Macedonia, Morocco, Myanmar, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Sri Lanka. | |
| The English version of weather forecast is available for the most popular cities of Russia: Reliable Prognosis in Russia. | |
| Malaysia and the Philippines are added and have separate websites (rp5.my and rp5.ph). Norway and Croatia are divided into regions. | |
| A multilingual version is available on the website "Reliable Prognosis" . It allows visitors to choose the right language to view the website. The first websites that used this technology were Reliable Prognosis in India and Reliable Prognosis in China. According to the choice of visitors, the websites can be viewed either in Russian or in English. In October of this year we intend to launch 8 more bilingual websites "Reliable Prognosis" both in Russian and English: the UK, Greece, Israel, the United States, Taiwan, South Africa, South Korea and Japan. | |
| For more accurate identification of locations the following 60 countries are divided into regions: Austria, Azerbaijan, Albania, Algeria, Angola, Armenia, Belgium, Bulgaria, Great Britain, Hungary, Vietnam, Germany, Hong Kong, Cyprus, Denmark, Egypt, Israel, India, Iran, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Kyrgyzstan, China, South Korea, Laos, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malaysia, Mongolia, the Netherlands, the United Arab Emirates, Pakistan, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Tajikistan, Thailand, Taiwan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Venezuela, Finland, France, Croatia, Montenegro, Czech Republic, Sweden, Switzerland, Estonia, South Africa, Japan. As an example, see Serbia, divided into regions. | |
| 46 countries have separate websites, corresponding to their national domains. Each country has its own weather forecast website RP5! :-) Austria >> rp5.at Armenia >> rp5.am Belarus >> rp5.by Belgium >> rp5.be Great Britain rp5.co.uk Hungary >> rp5.hu Vietnam >> rp5.vn Germany >> rp-5.de Hong Kong >> rp5.hk Greece rp5.gr Denmark >> rp5.dk Israel rp5.co.il India rp5.in Iran >> rp5.ir Iceland >> rp5.is Spain >> rp5.es Italy >> rp5.it Kazakhstan rp5.kz Kyrgyzstan >> rp5.kg China rp5.net.cn South Korea >> rp5.kr Laos >> rp5.la Latvia >> rp5.lv Lithuania >> rp5.lt Liechtenstein >> rp5.li Luxembourg >> rp5.lu Moldova >> rp5.md Mongolia >> rp5.mn Netherlands >> rp5.nl UAE >> rp5.ae Russia rp5.ru Romania >> rp5.ro Serbia >> rp5.rs Slovakia >> rp5.sk Slovenia >> rp5.si Tajikistan >> rp5.tj Taiwan >> rp5.tw Uzbekistan >> rp5.uz Ukraine >> rp5.ua France >> rp5.fr Montenegro >> rp5.me Czech Republic >> rp5.cz Switzerland >> rp5.ch Sweden >> rp5.se South Africa rp5.co.za Japan rp-5.jp | |
| Our websites "Reliable Prognosis" have Russified geographical names of Latvia, provided by Latvian Geospatial Information Agency. The number of locations in Latvia where weather forecast is available has increased from 57 to 615. | |
| On the websites " Reliable Prognosis" there is a new edition of the base of locations in Moldova which correspond to CATUM (classification of the administrative - territorial units of the Republic of Moldova). The number of locations in Moldova where weather forecast is available has increased from 331 to 1 676. | |
| To improve performance and reliability of the website rp5.RU, it has been hosted on two interconnected servers.This time it is in Yekaterinburg. | |
| rp5.UA provides an opportunity to find locations outside Ukraine with the help of search box. | |
| A new version of the base of locations in Belarus has been launched on the website "Reliable Prognosis", corresponding to ISATF (Indications System for Administrative-Territorial Formations) in Belarus. Hence, the number of locations in Belarus for which weather forecast is provided has increased from 2 038 to 9 755. Locations are divided into both administrative districts and regions. As a result of quality control of Belarus locations used before, duplicates have been excluded and errors have been corrected. | |
| The website rp5.RU is moved from Moscow to Yekaterinburg, to the data center of Rostelecom. Finally hosting in Moscow became impossible due to a very low level of technical support, high prices and explicit irresponsibility of Moscow "businessmen". | |
| A new version of a base of Kazakhstan locations has been launched on the website "Reliable Prognosis", corresponding to the Classifier of Administrative-Territorial Formations (CATF) in Kazakhstan. At present the locations in the database are divided both by regions and by districts. Due to the fact that during Kazakhstan's independence very many locations obtained new names, many names in our database have been corrected. | |
| For more rapid and reliable access of people from Kazakhstan to the website rp5.KZ, it is moved from Moscow to Almaty. | |
| To improve performance and reliability of the website rp5.RU, it is placed on two interconnected servers. Each new server is more high-performance than the previous one. | |
| For convenience of Moldova's inhabitants the forecasts for Moldovan locations are hosted on a separate website rp5.MD. The new website is located in Chisinau. | |
| The number of weather stations, which send data of weather observations to the website "Reliable Prognosis", has been increased by more than 1300. Currently the weather observations come from 4774 weather stations. | |
| Pages with weather forecast now provide information about current time in a specified location. | |
| The procedure of quality control of weather station data is now available on the websites. For each weather station the procedure rejects gross errors in observations. A new value is compared with the data received for a particular weather station for the last 14 days. For example, the procedure rejects the temperature of minus 56 degrees C , if the previous temperature values ranged from minus 14 to plus 13 degrees C; wind speed of 28 m/s if the previous value of velocity was 0-6 m/s, atmospheric pressure of 729 mm Hg if the previous pressure at this weather station was 758-768 mm Hg; relative humidity of 11% if the previous value was 90-100%. | |
| We have eliminated an error in systematic correction calculations for negative values of temperatures. The error occurred due to the peculiarities of processing of unsigned integers. In case with negative temperatures, corrections reset. Consequently, at a temperature of minus 30-40 degrees C the forecast could differ by 10 degrees from that observed later. | |
| A new version of HTML-sticker has been developed. | |
| The website started providing gadgets for the sidebar of WINDOWS VISTA. | |
| The websites rp5.by and rp5.kz are in commercial operation. | |
| To provide Ukrainian inhabitants with faster and more reliable access to the website rp5.ua, we have moved it from Moscov to Kiev. | |
| The website rp5.ua is in commercial operation. |