Cap Gemini is to develop software solutions that present long-term weather forecasts from Weather Action. Weather Action offers forecasts up to eleven months into the future. Until now, the information has only existed as raw data, distributed in...
Safeway has invested £300,000 in online, up-to-the-minute weather information from the UK Met Office. Grocery stock forecasters use weather to predict demand for everything from salad to charcoal to cat litter.
UK retailers are to be offered weather forecasts to help them manage their supply chains. Even retail industries with a longer lead time, like clothing, can use weather forecasts to determine their pricing and placement strategies," she told...
The sites, called Cirrus, Bora and Nimbus, offer differing formats of weather forecasts for France, Europe and the rest of the world. Bora displays the latest weather using colours to indicate potential forecasts.
The Met Office is overhauling its legacy messaging system to enable it to process the increasing amounts of observational data used for weather forecasts more quickly. The existing system, which is used for processing meteorological data from...
An upgrade to the Met Office’s supercomputing system has cut error rates for weather forecasts by 11 per cent over the past year. This follows the installation of an NEC SX-6 supercomputer in spring 2004, and compares with an average error...