The meteoblue Black Friday 2020 offer focusses on our unique history+, which gives access to the widest available historic weather data range for the past 40 years.
A discount of 50€ applies on all history+ purchases for the coming 3 days. history+ data is available for any location on Earth from 1979 to present, instantly after purchase. You can select from dozens of weather variables and visualise them in our web interface or download it in CSV format for further analysis, during an entire year. Thereby, uniquely precise analysis can be made for prevailing weather patterns, risk profiles and climate trends.
The discount coupon can be activated with a purchase between 27 and 29 November 2020, which gives you to access the historical data for the duration of one year. The coupon code is "BlackFriday2020".
To take advantage of the discount, click here.
Why not point+? We have been continuously adding functions to point+ and will be investing the point+ revenues into further functions in 2021. However, we will give you a 50% discount on auf point+ ... if you find any other weather service providing comparable range of weather information and functions at lower prices, and send us the detailed description for comparison.
New widget map - satellite view, wind animations and more
meteoblue launches a new widget with satellite view and wind animations. Satellite view presents the observation of the weather from the Earth's orbit. Wind animations are the most visually appealing and entertaining of all meteoblue maps: streamlines and colours indicate the movement of entire air masses. These unique features and other dynamic weather maps are now available via Widget Map, which you can easily insert into your website. Just follow the simple instructions below.
Thanks to our verified weather forecast technology, Widget Map visualises the most reliable weather forecast publicly available. The widget is also fully customisable, as it allows the users to switch between weather variables as well as between weather models, and to center on their own location.
The widget is offered free of charge, and additional features are available for commercial utilisation.
The widget can be used by online media to visualise weather events such as hurricanes, thunderstorms, weather fronts, and others. Companies operating in the area of aviation, shipping and logistics can take advantage when optimising route plans. Pilots, paragliders, balloonists and other outdoor enthusiasts can use the widget to study air currents. Other segments and industries can also benefit from meteoblue Widget Map. And of course, you can also simply enjoy it.
For more information, click here.
Additional features will be integrated shortly. Stay tuned!
Weather drives people indoors - the People Indoor Bias
The People Indoor Bias Map assumes that certain meteorological conditions generally result in people staying mainly in confined indoor spaces, while other meteorological conditions result in people spending time predominantly outside.
The People Indoor Bias can explain 50% - 80% of people’s behaviour of being indoors or outdoors, as demonstrated in a larger study correlating weather data with Google parks data from 5 large cities in 2 climate zones over 8 months of 2020, as illustrated below:
The People Indoor Bias map indicates when and where the meteorological conditions will be more or less likely to induce in groups of people such behaviour that may increase the risk of transmitting coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 (Covid-19).
See what People Indoor Bias says about your area!
Would you like to display this map on your website? Visit our widget map page and follow the instructions to implement the widget.
Weather is growing...
EU markets for weather services have grown over the past 10 years.
At the first virtual conference of the EMS (European Meteorological Society) on 09.September 2020, meteoblue CEO Dr. K. Gutbrod presented a study of the "Evolution of private weather services in 6 EU countries" from the year 2010 to 2019. Sales volume increased by factor 2.3 and employment by 1.6, showing the dynamic development of the sector. Large differences are also observed between countries: whilst Italy spends 2 €/capita on weather services (including National Weather service), Austria, Germany, France and Netherlands spend between 5 and 6 €/capita, and Switzerland more than 10 €/capita. The contribution of private weather services is most remarkable where innovative companies have developed better services for different industries.
The message for us: keep innovating!
meteoblue Day: "Good old" past days - when everything was (almost) normal...
2020 is the 14th and most difficult year for meteoblue. We recovered from this in the Swiss mountains on our longest "meteoblue Day" to date. The visit to Falera, in Graubünden, offered us astronomy, gastronomy, hiking and weather in abundance.
To start with, we visited the 3000-year-old and largest megalithic site in Switzerland - a "Stone Age Observatory" - guided by one of the co-discoverers of the site and immersed ourselves in the early observations of sun and star positions, agriculture and mountain climate.
At night we visited the more modern observatory "Mirasteilas", where benefactors, sponsors and enthusiasts have built the largest publicly accessible telescope in Switzerland and developed an observation and guided tour programme. Although the evening was rather foggy, we were able to determine the best time for astronomical observations with the help of our Astronomical Seeing. A lecture brought us close to the starry sky, the telescopes to the galaxies, adorned by several shooting stars from the Perseids, whose trail is recorded on the modern instruments.
The morning welcomed us with downpour, and the weather forecast was needed for the choice of clothes. After breakfast we went up to the alpine dairy Alp Dadens, where we were welcomed with a rest area, excellent cheese and yoghurt, a guided tour and hospitality. The mountaineers continued their ascent to the Crap Sogn Gion, the more cautious troupe slowly descended again, and both were rewarded with magnificent views and afternoon sun.
After the hikes, a big surprise was waiting for the team: Karsten Schwanke, meteorologist and TV presenter and Niko Renkosik, also meteorologist, joined us to give us exciting insights into TV weather, the media world and the mediation of weather information - keyword: customer orientation (and main sentences ?). Our dinner together was exciting, informative, tasty and too short... before we had to leave for home.
The time out was relaxing, very instructive, and an incentive, so you can look forward to further innovations from us!
