MyObservatory Hitting the 400 Million Mark

The new personalized weather service "MyObservatory" launched by the Hong Kong Observatory in March 2010, has become increasingly popular with the total number of page views exceeding 400 million at end February 2011.

Making use of positioning software to estimate the user's location, "MyObservatory" automatically displays the latest weather information, including temperature, relative humidity, rainfall, wind direction, wind speed and weather photo from the nearby weather stations. "MyObservatory" is available on the popular mobile platforms iPhone, iPAD, Android as well as PDA (Personal Digital Assistant).

The "MyObservatory" iPhone app has recently been further enhanced with "weather warning push notification" service and other additional weather information. For details, please refer to the hyperlink http://www.hko.gov.hk/whatsnew/f2/wn20110310e.htm.