Rouble's woes reap mixed harvest

Decline in currency has a negative impact on nation's exports, but lowers cost of oil

China's weather forecasts have become less accurate due to decline in the value of the Russian rouble, the National Meteorological Center said on its official microblog earlier this year.

The center's staff later explained that Russia had stopped providing timely upper air data through radiosonde observations due to a funding cut, thus affecting China's weather forecasting service.