Fixed-line networks are susceptible to damage and disruption from a variety of weather events:

• Strong winds can damage structures
  Routine maintenance and servicing can be disrupted by prolonged heavy rain

Our forecast services can help you:

• To anticipate periods of high incidence of line-faults, and plan staffing levels accordingly
• Plan essential maintenance around tailored weather forecasts of high winds or heavy rainfall, for example.

All mobile telecommunications are susceptible to adverse weather conditions - at the same time, mobile network operators face a harsh commercial environment with high start-up costs and many players fighting for market share.

• Heavy rainfall can cause signal attenuation
• Lightning poses a risk of electromagnetic damage to equipment
• High winds may damage stations and other above ground equipment
• The risks are all the greater with 3G technologies like UMTS and GPRS

Our services help Mobile Network Operators to minimise the additional burden of weather-related risk, improve their use of resources and maintain high levels of service.

For example, you can use our forecast services and information to:

• Anticipate operational difficulties
• Ensure bandwidth is available for high priority services
• Modify signal routeing
• Site stations more safely and effectively

• Anticipate operational difficulties
• Ensure bandwidth is available for high priority services
• Modify signal routeing
• Enabling the modelling of phenomena like signal attenuation and ducting.

We provide a wide range of relevant scientific support services, in particular remote sensing.

• Many call centres serve weather-dependent companies, like telcos and utilities
• In many sectors, call volumes increase during wet weather as consumers shop by phone

At the same time, long waiting times caused by weather-related demand can lead to:

• Poor levels of service, with frustrated callers
• Loss of revenue
• Bad public and corporate relations

We offer a range of easily accessible forecast services that include weather forecasts delivered by SMS, telephone or email, the world wide web or you can talk to a forecaster direct.

These services can help call centre managers and supervisors to maintain productivity and high service levels - irrespective of the prevailing or forecast weather conditions.

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.