Foreca.mobi weather services also in Latin - Ancient language meets new technology in Foreca's mobile weather services

HELSINKI, FINLAND, Apr 10 (MARKET WIRE) --

Helsinki, Finland - Cumulus, stratus and cirrus clouds are well known among all
the weather freaks. The Latin names for the clouds have already been used
more than two hundred years. Foreca - a Finnish weather service company has
taken weather services back to its roots. Foreca's mobile weather service
foreca.mobi is now available also in Latin.

"Latin is the language of the science and also meteorology. We want to
show
respect to this great science and therefore we made foreca.mobi also
available in Latin language", commented Marko Moilanen, the vice
president of business development in Foreca. "We also want to show that
Foreca can offer international weather services in any language in the
world."

Jokke Haesae, Master of Science at Helsinki University, translated
foreca.mobi
weather services in Latin. "Weather related words can be found in
dictionaries quite easily although some special words like different terms
related to snow were more difficult. These terms I had to create myself
by benchmarking other languages. The technical terms related to the use of the
service were more complicated because they were totally new words and sometimes
the meaning of the original term was not so clear", commented Jokke Haesae on
Latin translations.

Jokke Haesae is also involved in Finnish Broadcasting Company's team
called
Nuntii latini, News in Latin. "I am not writing news frequently
since I am more involved in correspondence. In both cases there is a bigger
freedom in translating and writing than in this new task. You only need to
write something in good language. The greatest challenge in foreca.mobi Latin

translations was to translate individual words, so that terms could be
understood out of context."

In foreca.mobi, there is weather information for more than 80.000
locations
around the world. Service includes current conditions as well as weather
forecasts up to seven days. Service also contains animated maps, for instance
satellite data covering the whole world and rain radar images for selected
territories. The service was launched in mid December 2008. There have
been more than 400 000 visitors since then. At the moment, foreca.mobi is
available in 15 languages.

Visit foreca.mobi/Latin

To visit foreca.mobi, type foreca.mobi in mobile phone internet
browser. In
Settings, choose Lingua Latina.

About Foreca

Foreca is the full-scale weather service company, which is providing
weather
services for its clients anywhere in the world. Foreca is a privately
owned company based in Helsinki, Finland.
Website:
corporate.foreca.com

For more information:
Sales Director Tiina Asula , Foreca Ltd
e-mail: tiina.asula@foreca.com, mobile: +358 40 558 1368

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