About us

meteoblue delivers local weather information of high quality worldwide for any point on land or sea in the world.
meteoblue premium content, products, and services are designed for businesses that depend on the weather and for individuals with a special interest in meteorology, and are available at competitive prices. For the general public we offer a free high-resolution weather forecast second to none.
meteoblue uses cutting edge science and technology to generate, display and distribute weather forecasts. Adapting the world-class NMM weather prediction model to meso-scale, we are able to detect climatic patterns typical of mountainous areas, lake shores and on the sea.

History

meteoblue models were initially developed at the University of Basel, Switzerland,  in cooperation with Opens external link in new windowNOAA/Opens external link in new windowNCEP  and the weather forecasts became quickly popular with scientists and the public with a specific interest in meteorology, including mountaineers, (hobby) pilots, and astronomers.
meteoblue was founded as a company in 2006, to ensure reliable operational forecasts and to better service the industry, and an independent commercial computing infrastructure and product development was established.
Since early 2007, the meteoblue computer cluster is daily computing high resolution forecasts for Europe, Africa and South America, and since 2008 also for Southeast Asia. For other areas, regional models and NOAA/NCEP GFS model runs are processed to generate information covering the entire world.
The meteoblue web site offers detailed maps and diagrams of these models, as well as localised presentations, which are continuously expanded to serve the different interest groups. myMapServer was introduced to allow users to individually configure the visuals of their forecast.
Starting in May 2008, meteoblue p☼int® offers local forecasts for more than 5 million places worldwide, using proprietary modelling to generate locally adapted forecast for surface and atmosphere. Through the introduction of SP☼T® technology, meteoblue became the first supplier worldwide capable of instantaneously showing local weather probabilities in graphical overview for every selected location.
With where2go?!, meteoblue launched the world's first full area weather search on the web. With where2go?!, you can search the best weather in the entire area surrounding your selected location for the next day(s), and see the results on a map - in seconds.

A short overview of meteoblue for download is available by clicking on page 1 and page 2.