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How will the next week’s weather affect you?
The next 16 days of weather have already been forecast for the whole globe. Are you prepared for it?
The argument
Every day the world’s weather models publish a fresh forecast for the whole planet: wind, rain, cloud, pressure, temperature and dozens more, up to sixteen days ahead and hour by hour for the first five. It is free, and it is remarkable. In the form it arrives, it is also almost useless to most businesses.
It arrives as hundreds of gridded files that need servers, pipelines and specialist code before they say anything. Even then, somebody has to turn metres per second into the crosswind on runway 26, or a rainfall rate into the dry window a grower needs to spray. No skipper, site manager or events team is going to build that.
What they have is a question. Do we leave tonight or wait for Thursday? Will the crane stand down on Wednesday? Do we need the covered stage? The forecast already contains the answer. The people making the call cannot get at it.
That is the part we do. We learn how you make the decision today and build an application that answers it, for any trade, from the same forecasts. Every application runs on the WeatherLabs Engine, our service that turns raw model files into answers, which is why a new one takes days rather than years.
Traditional route
7 steps · months or years
Each step needs a specialist.
With WeatherLabs
3 steps · you only do the first
We do everything in between, and repeat it for every new forecast.
How we work
Most weather products start from the data and leave you to work out what it means. We start from your decision and work back to the weather that settles it.
Stage 1
You tell us the decisions you make. You know your business far better than we do, so the first conversation is about your work rather than the weather.
Stage 2
Your limits, your places and your timing, and how the decision gets made today.
Stage 3
We turn the global forecast into an application for exactly that decision, on the WeatherLabs Engine, in your words and your units.
Stage 4
Wherever you are, refreshed with every day’s forecast. The call is still yours. It is just easier to make.
…and we keep listening.
Feedback you leave in the application turns into improvements while you keep using it.
Every business is different, so we agree the timing with you before we start.
Day one
You tell us the decision. We ask how you make it today.
Within days
Your places and your limits, on today’s forecast.
The first three weeks
Used for real decisions. We watch what helps and what doesn’t.
Then, continuously
Small changes land as you ask for them.
Applications
Each application answers the questions people in one trade ask, from today’s forecast.
A live application
Pick two airfields, or switch direction. Slide the departure time, and the wind, the runway crosswind and the answer move with it. This is what an application looks like when it is built around one decision.
Aviator · EGHI → EGJJ
Wind at 10 m · loading the forecast…
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Choose a departure hour over the next 48 hours. Arrow keys move one hour.
Depart · EGHI
Southampton —
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Gusts —
Arrive · EGJJ
Jersey —
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Gusts —
Jersey · runway —
—kt crosswind
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Reading the forecast…
Ask us
Type your question. If an application already answers it, you’ll see which. If not, send it to us: that is how new applications start.
Any business
We’ll take on anything.
From whole businesses to independent professionals, if you need to know what the weather will do, we want to help. When to lift, sail, spray, pour, open the gates or warn your policyholders: large or small, common or unusual, it starts the same way, with the decision you have to make.
Tell us your questionWhere we’ve started
Not on the list? Tell us anyway: that is how new applications start.
Commission an application
Tell us the decision and how your business makes it today. We do not need data, developers or anything about grids.