Kia Orana and Welcome to our website! The Cook Islands Meteorological Service is a division of the Ministry of Transport. It is dedicated in providing you with the latest weather updates, forecasts and warnings for the Cook Islands. Since that first rainfall observation in 1899 in Rarotonga, more observations are now made so as to guide us to see what will happen tomorrow.
Definition of disallow. 1  transitive verb. 2  1 : to deny the force, truth, or validity of. 3  2 : to refuse to allow.
General. The decibel, or dB, is a means of expressing the gain of an active device (such as an amplifier) or the loss in a passive device (such as an attenuator or length of cable). It is simply the ratio of output to input expressed in logarithmic form.The decibel was developed by the telephone company to express the gain or loss in telephone transmission systems, and is best understood by first discussing the rationale for its development.he decibel, or dB, is a means of expressing the gain of an active device (such as an amplifier) or the loss in a passive device (such as an attenuator or length of cable).