Advanced Weather Information System is available throughout the country
SocietyUlaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ The National Emergency Management
Agency in cooperation with Mercy Corps Mongolia has been successfully
implementing the project ‘Leveraging Tradition and Science in Disaster Risk
Reduction in Mongolia -2’ for the fourth year.
In the frames of the project, the Advanced
Weather Information System (AWI) has been launched and developed to provide herders
with fast and real-time weather forecasts in cooperation with mobile operator
companies and the National Agency for Metrology and Environmental Monitoring.
The AWI is now available for over 20 thousand herders of all
1820 baghs of 330 soums of 21 aimags.
To submit the request to get information, the herders and local
citizens should send a message to the special number 130-105.