meteoblue at the AMS Annual Meeting 2026 in Houston
The meteoblue team will participate in the American Meteorological Society (AMS) Annual Meeting 2026, taking place from 25 to 29 January in Houston, Texas.
The AMS Annual Meeting is a cornerstone event for the global meteorological community. It serves as a premier forum for sharing the latest scientific advancements in atmospheric science, hydrology, and oceanography. By bringing together researchers, technology providers, and policy makers, the conference fosters the collaboration necessary to address complex climate challenges.
A long-standing tradition of exchange
For meteoblue, attending the AMS Annual Meeting is a recurring highlight in our calendar. We have made it a priority to attend every year, as it allows us to stay at the forefront of meteorological research and maintain personal connections with the international scientific community. This consistent presence reflects our commitment to the North American market and our dedication to integrating the latest global scientific standards into our services.
Scientific contribution: Wind power forecasting
Scientific rigor is a foundational value at meteoblue. As part of the event's program, our meteorological expert and the Technical Lead of the Weather Services department, Nicola Pierotti, will present a poster detailing our recent work in the energy sector.
- Topic: Enhancing Wind Power Forecasting through Quality Control and Data Cleaning
- Session: Session 17 – Energy Posters (Poster #738)
- Time: Wednesday, 28 January 2026, from 3:00 PM (CT)
The presentation focuses on methodologies for refining raw data to produce more reliable power output predictions, supporting the operational needs of the renewable energy industry.
Connect with our team at Booth 704
We invite you to visit us at Booth 704 to discuss our latest developments in high-resolution modeling, urban climate monitoring, and automated weather data delivery. Members of our leadership, sales, and technical teams will be available throughout the event:
- Dmitry Koplovich (Chief Executive Officer)
- Michael Bührer (Head of Weather Services)
- Nico Bader (Team Lead City Climate)
- Nicola Pierotti (Technical Lead Weather Services)
- Elena Butz (Key Account Manager)
- Sandra Jevremovic (International Sales Expert)
Schedule a meeting
To ensure sufficient time for a detailed discussion regarding your specific requirements or potential collaborations, we encourage you to book a one-to-one meeting with our specialists in advance.
We look forward to meeting you in Houston!
Weather Intelligence in the Energy Sector: Meeting Winter Demand with Confidence
Winter is one of the most challenging periods for the energy sector. As temperatures drop, energy demand rises sharply, driven by heating needs, shorter daylight hours and increased strain on infrastructure. At the same time, winter weather brings higher uncertainty: cold spells, snow, icing, strong winds and prolonged cloud cover can disrupt both energy production and distribution. Managing this complex balance between supply, demand and risk increasingly depends on high-quality weather intelligence.
Winter energy demand and weather challenges
In winter, energy systems face a double pressure. Demand peaks during cold periods, while renewable generation can become more variable. Solar production is affected by low sun angles, cloud cover and snow accumulation on panels. Wind energy, while often stronger in winter, is exposed to challenges such as icing, storms and rapidly changing wind conditions. Extreme weather events can also impact grid stability, maintenance schedules and market operations.
Accurate weather forecasts are therefore not only useful, but essential. Poor anticipation of weather-driven fluctuations can lead to imbalance penalties, inefficient trading decisions, unexpected outages or delayed maintenance. Conversely, reliable weather intelligence allows operators to act proactively rather than reactively.
How weather intelligence optimises energy operations
Weather intelligence combines high-resolution forecasts, long-term historical data and advanced statistical optimisation to guide decision-making across the entire energy value chain. In winter, this allows energy companies to better anticipate demand peaks during cold spells, optimise power generation forecasts for wind and solar assets, improve trading and scheduling decisions while reducing imbalance costs, plan maintenance activities around safe and favourable weather windows, and assess as well as mitigate weather-related risks such as snow cover or turbine icing.
By understanding not just what the weather will be, but how it will affect energy assets, operators can significantly improve reliability and efficiency during the most demanding season of the year.
How meteoblue supports the energy sector
meteoblue provides globally consistent, high-quality weather and climate data tailored to the specific needs of the energy industry. Our solutions support energy projects from early planning to daily operations.
For solar energy, meteoblue supports the entire lifecycle, from site search and assessment using solar maps and 80 years of hourly global weather simulations, including global horizontal irradiation, to system design with yield calculators for reliable long-term production estimates. Monitoring tools help benchmark performance against satellite and observational data, detect anomalies, issue snow warnings and plan maintenance, while intraday and day-ahead solar and PV power forecasts are delivered through a single, observation-optimised API for operational use.
For wind energy, local wind forecasts at multiple height levels are delivered through high-resolution models suited to complex terrain, combined with long-term historical datasets for site assessment and risk analysis. Additional capabilities include icing risk estimation based on 30 years of hourly data, statistically optimised forecasts for turbine-specific decisions, and seamless integration via APIs, SCADA-ready visualisations and custom dashboards.
Across both sectors, these capabilities are complemented by customisable weather images and visualisations that integrate directly into operational platforms, enabling faster and clearer decision-making.
Looking ahead: the new Energy Dashboard
We’re currently developing a new Energy Dashboard to help monitor assets and access weather and power forecasts – more details coming soon.
Turning winter challenges into opportunities
As weather variability increases and energy systems become more dependent on renewables, weather intelligence is no longer optional. In winter, it plays a central role in ensuring security of supply, protecting infrastructure, and maximising economic performance. With detailed climate data and reliable forecasts tailored to the energy sector, meteoblue helps energy professionals plan, operate and optimise their assets even under the most demanding winter conditions.
Connect with meteoblue: Our Community Forum Has Launched
At meteoblue, we value our community and are committed to providing the best possible service and support. We are pleased to announce that the meteoblue Community Forum has officially launched – a dedicated online space where you can ask questions, share knowledge, and engage in professional discussions with fellow users and meteoblue experts.
What Is a Community Forum and How Can It Help You?
If you have ever found a solution online to an obscure technical problem, chances are you interacted with a community forum. Community forums are online meeting spaces where people with shared interests connect, discuss topics, and help each other. They allow for meaningful conversations, peer-to-peer support, as well as professional networking.
Why Did We Create a Community Forum?
Our community forum brings a wide range of benefits both for daily avid users and for the broader community. It enables mutual support, allowing members to find answers from one another and build a self-sustaining ecosystem of shared knowledge. At the same time, it serves as a centralised source of information where solutions remain searchable and accessible long after a question has been resolved. Additionally, the forum provides the company with valuable insights about common challenges, helping us to continuously improve our products and services.
How Does the meteoblue Community Forum Work?
The meteoblue Community Forum is a place where members can ask and answer questions about meteoblue services and data, exchange tips and insights on weather, climate and forecasting, and connect with other enthusiasts and professionals from the meteorology and climate community. It also offers access to exclusive content and discussions with meteoblue experts.
Whether you are a beginner, an experienced user of meteoblue products, a professional meteorologist, or simply passionate about weather and climate, the forum provides a single platform to explore ideas, share knowledge, and find practical solutions.
How to Join the meteoblue Community Forum
Joining the meteoblue Community Forum is quick and easy. Simply visit https://community.meteoblue.com/, create an account using your email address, and set up your profile. Once registered, you can explore existing topics, join discussions, ask questions, and share your own insights with the community.
We encourage you to explore the forum, contribute to discussions, and take full advantage of this collaborative platform. Together, we can make it a vibrant hub for knowledge exchange and professional networking!
Join the meteoblue Community Forum today and be part of a space where knowledge meets collaboration. Your questions, insights, and expertise are what will make this community thrive.
Major Update to the meteoblue Weather & Maps iOS App
Last month meteoblue iOS app has received its biggest update so far – with an all-new design, improved performance and smarter navigation, the app now offers the fastest and most intuitive way to explore meteoblue weather forecasts to date.
This release represents a major leap forward: the interface has been completely redesigned, and about 90% of the codebase has been rewritten from scratch, resulting in a noticeably smoother, more stable, and easier to navigate app. Building on extensive user feedback – thousands of reviews in the past month alone – this new version includes major structural and visual updates as well as numerous subtle refinements.
New and improved features
- Sleek new design with streamlined buttons, icons and layout elements, able to accommodate different screen resolutions and custom font-size settings, improving accessibility
- Scrollable home view allowing quick navigation to all weather readouts and visualisations, while retaining the menu button for focused viewing of individual elements
- Hourly weather overview for the upcoming 24 hours located directly at the top of the home screen
- Progressive temperature colour gradient with subtle, continuous saturation changes and periodic hue shifts, giving an at-a-glance view of temperature changes over time
- Quick-access buttons for the Radar and Meteogram views allow instant navigation to these widely used features
- Long-press tooltips explaining most meteorological terms, symbols, and interface elements seen in the app
- In-app feedback form for direct contact, a feature that has already seen extensive use among early testers, providing us with invaluable insights for user-focused improvements
- 5 new languages added: Simplified Chinese, Indonesian, Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese, bringing the total to 29 supported languages – plus native support for right-to-left languages
- Complete language review as part of the addition of a new translation system which will improve the implementation time and precision of future translations
- Fully refactored codebase, greatly improving the efficiency of the app's code and making it easier for us to add and improve features going forward
The decisions behind these changes were based largely on direct input from users responding to our recent requests for feedback. We were pleasantly surprised by the sheer number of replies, and we would like to thank the many active and engaged users of the app for their thoughtful and constructive comments.
We are aware that major redesigns like this one will not meet with the approval of everyone and can take time to get used to, especially for long-time users. However, we are confident that this update improves both the usability and the visual appeal of the app for the vast majority of users, as reflected in the feedback we have received.
Your feedback has already inspired improvements and will continue to guide the ongoing development of the meteoblue app. We have ensured that all user-favourite features remain, including the forecast predictability, which shows how likely the predictions are to change as new data arrives, and the rainSPOT, which displays where precipitation is expected in the immediate surroundings of the selected location.
What's next
We're continuing to enhance the app with further improvements already underway. Users can now personalise their home screen by reordering content cards, making it easier to keep the most relevant information front and centre.
New widgets are on the horizon and will be rolled out soon, bringing even more flexibility to how weather information can be accessed at a glance. At the same time, work on the redesigned Android app continues, with noticeable improvements already taking shape behind the scenes.
More updates are on the way, and we look forward to sharing further improvements with you soon.
Thanks for taking the time to read our January update. Stay tuned for more news, product updates and insights from meteoblue – and as always, thank you for being part of our community.
