The summit of the highest mountain in Africa reaches 5895 meters altitude and is tough to reach and even tougher to overpass. However, in December 2021, 15 hot air balloon teams made the first balloon crossing since 2011. Stefan Zeberli, a Swiss professional balloon pilot, leader of the ballon world ranking and user of meteoblue services, recounts the experience.

Our meteoMail feature is extended and now also delivers weather warnings.

Since 2018, meteoblue has been part of the SmartAgriHubs EU project about the digital transformation of the European Agrifood Sector. The final event took place in Lisbon, Portugal, at the end of September 2022.

This week of 13. June 2022, a heat wave will reach Western Europe and is predicted to move further North. Extreme heat especially affects cities, because sealed surfaces and buildings store more energy in form of heat and only slowly release this energy during night.

We have drawn new pictograms for our daily weather overview and improved the English and French weather reports. Both now improve the meteoblue home page.

Besides the lately introduced weather warnings, we have also added a wind watch and temperature anomaly map to our website start page to better detect extreme weather events.

meteoblue launches historical satellite cloud maps since 2020 - worldwide and in highest available precision - the first of its kind worldwide.

Our Weather model selection now includes UKMO-10 worldwide and UKMO-2 for NW-Europe. This increases our model range to 8 worldwide and to 20 weather models in the EU - an unique selection not yet publicly available anywhere else.

Our springs Swiss Alp discovery tour with difficult climbs - and weather.

We have extended our free website maps widget by adding temperature, sunshine hours and extreme forecast maps.