Be one step ahead of your competitors and customers: we can supply advance forecasts of severe weather that may lead to high levels of claims, allowing you to take pre-emptive action. We can supply these direct to your operations centre by email or SMS at least 24 hours before onset of severe weather. Warnings are sent for strong winds, heavy rainfall, floods, severe thunderstorms, large hail, tornadoes, dense fog and extreme heat.

We deliver clear and precise forecasts that help you to plan your daily activities with confidence, and to minimise the impact of the weather on your operations.

The construction industry is another business segment which is extremely sensitive to the weather. We provide pertinent information on timing and intensity of precipitation for the exact construction location for either paving or roofing crews. If unexpected rain falls on fresh concrete, literally thousands of euros go down the drain. Also, temperature forecasts are also very important for paving crews.

We send forecasts for the next 6 days by email at around 8am each day.

The forecast includes:

• Weather
• Minimum temperature
• Maximum temperature
• Wind speed and direction every 3 hours
• Rain probability
• Thunderstorm probability
• Relative Humidity
• Cloud Cover
• Rain amount every 3 hours
• Next 24-hour warning

14-DAY WEATHER FORECASTS

Our 14-day weather forecast is sent by email 3 times a week. This weather forecast includes weather description and weather icon, wind direction and force, rainfall and thunderstorm probabilities, maximum and minimum temperatures, cloud cover, relative humidity and sea conditions.

Our 3-months weather forecast is sent by email once a month, normally at the end of the month. It includes a week-by-week detailed weather description, including temperatures and rainfall.

The General Monthly Summary (GMS) is a record of weather data, giving daily values, means and averages for a range of weather elements.

The GMS 'weather log' helps farmers and other agriculturists to assess how the weather may have affected their business and specific activities like planting, spraying, irrigation and harvest.

The weather elements covered include:

• Temperature, maximum and minimum
• Rainfall
• Wind, average and maximum gust
• Humidity
• Significant weather - days when thunderstorms, hail, fog and gales were reported

Meteo Malta has a wealth of information and expertise that can help you to resolve claims quickly and efficiently. For example, Meteo Malta operates a lightning detection system, allowing the recording of the precise time and location of lightning and thunderstorms in Malta and Gozo! This is an excellent service for an insurance company to subscribe to as you can then decide if an insurance claim due to lightning strikes is true or false!