The telephone weather service will end next month after 30 years.
Meteosuisse runs the recorded information line on the short number 162.
But with the rise of smart phones, fewer people have been calling. Although last year, 350,000 did dial it – that’s nearly a 1,000 a day. But at the turn of the century – it was getting 7m a year or 20,000 a day.
Meteosuisse says short numbers can only be kept if they’re very heavily used – and that’s no longer the case for the weather forecast.
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