Jugoslav Nikolic

In most lower areas, snow cover of 10 to 25 cm is expected, and in hilly and mountainous areas over 30 cm, while snow weakening is expected during the night, according to the director of the Republic Hydro-meteorological Institute (RHMZ), Professor Jugoslav Nikolic.

BELGRADE - The meteorological services of Serbia, Montenegro, Macedonia, Republika Srpska, the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina and Albania established at a meeting in Belgrade on Friday a consortium for short-range weather forecasting.

Finland to donate hydrological measuring equipment

BELGRADE -- The Finnish government will help the Serbian hydrological services recover from flood-caused damage with a donation of hydrological equipment worth EUR 100,000

BELGRADE - The Finnish government will help the Serbian hydrological services recover from flood-caused damage with a donation of hydrological equipment worth EUR 100,000, said the participants of Friday's initial meeting on a project for rehabilitation and modernisation of hydrological and meteorological observation systems and data exchange procedures in Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina.

All access roads to villages in the Sjenica region in south-west Serbia were impassable on Friday after heavy snowfall, leaving about 10,000 people snowed in.

In the nearby Zlatibor county, about 30,000 people were left without electricity because the supply from about 500 electrical stations was disrupted by the snow.