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Oxfordshire’s Winter Road Management successfully transferred to MeteoGroup
Oxfordshire County Council is responsible for gritting the main roads across Oxfordshire and Paul Wilson, Group Manager Area Operations, is responsible for coordination and delivery of the Winter and Adverse Weather Service in Oxfordshire, both in terms of operational delivery and customer service delivery. He explains how the decision was made to hire MeteoGroup for the winter weather forecasts.
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'The Sun' case: Translating accurate forecasts into unambiguous icons - and how to read them
MeteoGroup is good at forecasting. Especially storms. But last week’s UK media storm we couldn't have predicted. Here's the full story.
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European End-of-Season Report for the Winter 2017/18
MeteoGroup has been a provider of this consultancy for many years already, and has developed several models and tools to support road services. This has resulted in an excellent forecast quality, delivered through meteorological experts in weather rooms in eight European countries. In many cases our hit rate for the prediction of the minimum road surface temperature was well above 90%. Here’s a small recap on this past winter.
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Curative salting in Barneveld requires highly accurate ice forecasts
In the Dutch municipality of Barneveld, winter road management is the responsibility of the Public Space Management Department. The winter road management service has 10 salting trucks at its disposal and three tractors, if necessary. The municipality of Barneveld uses 'curative salting' and therefor relies strongly on the accurate forecasts of MeteoGroup.
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Curatief strooien in Barneveld vraagt nauwkeuriger gladheidvoorspelling
De gladheidbestrijding in de gemeente Barneveld wordt uitgevoerd door de afdeling Beheer Openbare Ruimte (BOR). Het strooien gebeurt curatief en dat vraagt om de meest nauwkeurige gladheidvoorspellingen van MeteoGroup. "Wij krijgen van MeteoGroup twee uur van tevoren een waarschuwing dat het glad wordt. Dit werkt fantastisch."
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Will we see yet another active tropical storm season in 2018?
Hurricanes have no respect for humans or their calendars. The traditionally designated “hurricane season” in the Atlantic runs from June 1st to November 31st but named storms have developed as soon as January (Hurricane Alex on 12th January 2016). The latest date for the first storm to be named was 31st August 1967 (Hurricane Arlene). How active is the Atlantic likely to be between now and late autumn? This is what we expect at MeteoGroup.
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MeteoGroup presents WeatherSuite at the International Weather and Climate Forum in Paris
MeteoGroup is updating weather presenters from all over the world on the 'Future of Weather Presenting’ at the International Weather and Climate Forum in Paris.
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Spliethoff optimizes efficiency with MeteoGroup SPOS9 Weather Routing
Weather Routing is an important tool for Spliethoff to ensure the maximum safety for crews, cargoes and vessels. At the same time it helps to save time, money and, of course, fuel. MeteoGroup SPOS is used on board about 100 vessels of the Spliethoff Group, as well as in the office.
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Winter 2017/18 UK End-of-Season Report
Britain went against the flow, having the past winter colder than average. The temperature was ~0.5°C below the average over England and Wales and ~1°C below the average over Scotland, compared to a climatology based on the most recent 10 years.
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Winter 2017/18 Netherlands End-of-Season Report
Similar to the previous four years, the winter of 2017-2018 as a whole went quite smoothly. However, the differences between the individual months were large. One of the top ten warmest months of January ever in De Bilt, was followed by the coldest February since 1996.
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27% chance of rain at 2 p.m., what does it mean?
'A 27% chance of rain at 2 p.m.' What does it actually mean?' BBC4 asks Nikki Berry, Senior Meteorologist on the MeteoGroup UK team, about how to properly read the BBC weather app.
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Road Weather Forecast Performance, Winter 2017-2018
We have measured our forecast quality, taking a strict user perspective. We apply scores which are scientifically sound and still intuitively understandable. We inspect weather situations where road services are most vulnerable. Still we accept the limitations of road weather observations for verification purposes. Following the suggestion of the Institution of Civil Engineers we compare the forecasted road frost against the actual observed.
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