Documents and legal acts
The acts under which the Service works, and its manuals and orders that others must follow.
Charges for data, certificates and calibration
A certificate of the weather on a given day: 120 som. Monthly climate tables for one station: 300 som. Calibration of a thermograph: 450 som. Free for schools, the courts and state bodies.
Criteria for warnings of dangerous weather
Heavy snow (20 cm in 12 hours, 10 cm on State Route 1), night frost after 1 May, heat (40 °C and above), wind of 25 m/s, air quality index above 150, avalanche danger 3 and above.
On dry-year water plans for large users
Large water users draw up dry-year plans; the Service's spring flow forecast for the Talas, Chu and Naryn decides when they apply. Limits new rice paddies on the lower Chu.
On the air quality network and the index
Sets up the six PM2.5 monitors, adopts the US EPA index scale and its six colour bands, and fixes the morning bulletin of the heating season.
Hydrometeorological Service Act
Makes the Service the only body that issues official forecasts and warnings of dangerous weather in the Zone; broadcasters and the press must carry its warnings unaltered. As amended in 2008.