We won't be straying too far from last weeks featured country, Bulgaria, as we take a look at Moldova this evening. Moldova is further north than Bulgaria and less influenced by the Mediterranean, however it is greatly modified by the Black Sea. It's position in the steppes west of the Carpathians allows it to be dry, much like the Prairies of the American Midwest, or, more accurately, the High Plains. It's location near the Black Sea, however, does allow for Spring and Fall thunderstorm development, preventing Moldova from becoming desertified.
The State Hydrometeorological Service of the Republic of Moldova provides weather. Their website is primarily one to provide information about the activities and organization of the SHS, and there are numerous pages on the topic. The main page provides a basic forecast for Chisinau, the capital, as well as the various other regions of the country, and that is pretty much the extent of meteorological data on the site. The top tabs will direct you to different departments of the SHS and give you a little background about what it is that they do in those departments. The thing I particularly noticed was that there seem to be a lot of women working there. Credit Moldova for it's gender equity, I suppose. There have been other non-dissemination oriented weather sites that we've come across, but Moldova's does something nice, providing us with a www.meteo.md/en/mass.htm list of outlets that distribute SHS weather information. I'm mostly intrigued by the telephone robots. Moldova's SHS comes across as an organization with nothing to hide, and their website provides exactly the information that one would want to look for.