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Web makes storm data a mobile affair

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The Hong Kong Observatory launched a personal digital assistant (PDA) website yesterday, giving users 24-hour access to weather information.

The website will meet increasing public demand for weather information, especially from hikers, according to Wong Ming-chung, the Observatory's assistant director.

'As PDAs are popular among the public, we feel there's a need to provide these users with the most updated weather information, especially in rapidly changing weather situations.'

Dr Wong said the observatory planned to start the service before the start of this year's rainy season. The service would be particularly useful to hikers, allowing them to use the latest weather information to plan their activities, he said.

Frequent hiker Yip Ching, member of the Kin Hang Hiking Club, said he did not find the website useful, even though he has a PDA.

'Hikers usually check the weather before they go. If the weather's bad, we won't go at all,' he said.

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