The marine site-specific weather forecasts consist of a detailed 7-day Marine Daily Planner (presented in six-hourly time steps) including the following parameters (BOLD have customizable thresholds for color coding). Marine Weather Checks are similar forecasts but for a 48-hour period broken down into 2-hour increments.

• 10/50 Meter wind direction & speed including gusts (speed in knots)
• Wind Wave (heights in feet or meters)
• Primary surface swell (height in feet or meters)
• Significant wave (height in feet or meters)
• Maximum wave (height in feet or meters)
• Visibility (nautical miles)
• Air temperature (in degrees Fahrenheit or Celsius)
• Precipitation probability
• Thunderstorm probability

Built to cross language barriers at sea while assuring safety and profitibility, our detailed 48-hour offshore asset-based forecast includes the following parameters:

• 10/50 Meter wind direction & speed including gusts (speed in knots)
• Wind Wave (heights in feet or meters)
• Primary surface swell (height in feet or meters)
• Significant wave (height in feet or meters)
• Maximum wave (height in feet or meters)
• Visibility (nautical miles)
• Air temperature (in degrees Fahrenheit or Celsius)
• Precipitation probability
• Thunderstorm probability

WeatherOps provides track and intensity forecasts for tropical features that we consider likely to develop into cyclones. We do so well in advance of official National Hurricane Center (NHC) or Joint Typhoon Warning Center (JTWC) Advisories. Our Significant Tropical Disturbance Advisories provide a full track and intensity forecast for any tropical feature of interest. For many of our customers, waiting for the NHC or JTWC to begin official track forecasts can be far too late to take critical preparedness actions. In 2017, our initial tropical storm forecasts originated, on average, 50 hours before the NHC began forecasting them.

Once our forecasters determine that a tropical feature in any Tropical Basin in the world has a threat of development during the next five days, we designate it as a Significant Tropical Disturbance, and we will begin issuing twice daily Significant Tropical Disturbance Advisories. Once determined that the disturbance poses a threat to develop, we increase our Advisories to four times per day.

To provide detailed planning information to our customers, we produce Threat Reports. These reports are designed to give a direct assessment of the potential impacts of a tropical cyclone/Typhoon to our customers’ assets. These initiate for areas threatened by a tropical cyclone as soon as WeatherOps begins issuing Significant Tropical Disturbance Advisories.

• Lists storm position, intensity (Saffir-Simpson scale), forward speed, hourly wind speeds listed for a given single location or multi-site lists for all of the assets impacted within the company.
• Forecast guidance table listing expected wind arrival times (39 mph, 58 mph, 74 mph), along with forecasted maximum wind at the site and anticipated rainfall.
• "Worst Case" scenario direct path guidance table which assumes the tropical system will move directly toward the asset.
• Issued twice per day (based on the 09 UTC and 21 UTC advisories) for potentially affected assets once Significant Tropical Disturbance Advisories or Active Storm advisories begin.

WeatherOps forecasters issue regularly scheduled Tropical Planners during the appropriate times of year for the North Atlantic Basin, the Western Pacific Basin and the Australia Region. These planners are issued twice daily by 0600 LT and 1400 LT basin specific time. In the case of a tropical weather threat occurring outside of a basin’s typical tropical season, WeatherOps will begin issuing "Special Tropical Planners." These special issues will initiate as soon as there is a 30% or better chance of development within the following five days. This special issuance will continue until the system dissipates or the threat for development ends. The Tropical Planners include the following content:

• Issued twice daily - morning and afternoon
• Summary of active tropical systems
• Summary of Invest areas (active disturbances with 30% or higher probability of development)
• Direction/movement of disturbances with a track cone of error
• Location/movement of tropical waves
• Location of wind shear, dry air and other inhibiting factors of development
• Satellite images

We connect weather threats to your action plans for both onshore and offshore assets. These reports are designed to provide a direct assessment of the potential impacts of a tropical cyclone to our customers’ assets with specific timing of forecasted winds for each location. T-Time reports focus on the offshore marine assets while Risk & Response reports serve a variety of land-based customers. These initiate for areas threatened by a tropical cyclone as soon as WeatherOps begins issuing significant Tropical Disturbance Advisories.

Risk & Response Report

• Provides storm position, intensity, and forward speed, along with a time-series graph of hourly wind speeds for a particular affected asset
• Features a forecast guidance table that lists expected wind arrival times (39 mph, 58 mph, 74 mph), along with forecasted maximum wind at the site
• Offers "worst case" scenario direct-path guidance which assumes the tropical system will intersect the asset
• Is one of the most popular reports we provide and is issued twice per day

T-Time Report

• Lists storm position, intensity, forward speed and wind radii
• Features forecast guidance that provides decision time remaining before storm impact
• Presents "worst case" scenario direct-path guidance that assumes the tropical system will move directly toward the asset
• Is also one of the most popular reports we provide and is issued twice per day

Our forecast team monitors your business concerns and locations anywhere on the globe. If we determine a threat is possible, a WeatherOps Forecaster issues an alert. The WeatherOps team issues short-fuse, event-driven alerts and outlooks covering Tropical Weather, Winter Weather, Severe Storms and Excessive Rainfall as soon as they are forecasted or predicted to be a threat to your business. Alerts are color-coded to communicate severity quickly and easily.

WDT’s patented alerting technologies disseminate these alerts in real-time via HTML email and SMS.

WDT’s WeatherOps Meteorologists provide alerts for any given location, worldwide. These are the alert types included:

WDT’s automated systems and data streams provide real-time lightning proximity alerting including "all-clear" notifications for those locations where operations are sensitive to lightning risk. This system detects and distributes lightning alerts via email, SMS text, and push notification through the WeatherOps mobile app; in the WeatherOps Display (audible and visual). WDT utilizes the global Earth Networks Total Lightning Network (ENTLN) for all of our lightning services.

• Issued once a strike is detected within range of up to three selected proximity rings
• An all-clear will be issued when no lightning has been detected within the selected radius for a specified number of minutes (customizable by location)

• Patented Alerting Engine: WeatherOps provides more accurate alerts than those offered by typical consumer alerting services. Patent #8519860.
• Custom Alerts: Receive push notifications from WeatherOps meteorologists who are monitoring your assets.
• Follow Me: WeatherOps will automatically alert you if you are in an area when a watch/warning is issued.
• Audio: WeatherOps provides audio alerts in the form of beeps followed by a brief description of the alert type.
• Radar: Quickly reference where you are in relation to adverse weather utilizing the in-app radar mapping capability featuring watch and warning overlays.
• Quick Forecast: Access current and forecast WeatherOps information for all locations from a single screen.

WeatherOps Commander allows company admins to customize certain weather parameter thresholds within the Daily Planner or Weather Check forecasts. The color-coded thresholds are based on the following general assumptions:  

• Acceptable working conditions show as clear or green
• Marginal working conditions or medium threat level show yellow
• Poor working conditions or high threat level show red

Customization of the parameter thresholds based on your specific operating conditions provides a quick glance at the forecast to reveal when parameters have exceeded a threshold. 

Executive Summary

We’ve taken our threat matrix and compressed it so you can see all of your assets in one place simultaneously. At a glance, you can quickly identify assets that may require focus in the following days. The temporal resolution in this report is customizable just like the Dynamic Planners. 

Daily Threat Report

We help you by providing a Management by Exception solution. In this report, decision makers see only assets with a parameter “triggered” during the following ten days. Simply set your thresholds and only see which asset(s) will exceed these thresholds.

This Planner combines a 7-day projection of thunderstorm and heavy rainfall threats to assist decision-makers with planning for impacts. Thunderstorm forecasts include wind, hail, and tornadoes. WeatherOps forecasters rank the potential impact of these threats on an easily understandable scale. The threat of excessive rainfall is assessed similarly.

Thunderstorm outlooks are generated using proprietary algorithms developed by members of the WeatherOps weather research and forecast teams. In addition to the 7-day national forecast, when your area is under threat during the upcoming 72 hours, we’ll send you a high-resolution regional map and an easily understandable written discussion regarding expected threats.

Our WeatherOps forecast team provides decision-level managers and directors with the ability to quickly establish one-on-one communication with the WeatherOps forecast desk via phone.

We understand you may need additional information regarding a high-impact weather event and its real threat to operations as a situation evolves. Our meteorologists will interact with you in a clear and concise manner, offering additional clarification beyond the weather forecasts and alerts contained within the WeatherOps Display.

During large-scale, extreme events, WeatherOps sets up a “situation room,” and schedules conference calls with our clients. Often a team of executives will be on these calls with our senior meteorologists to help them understand how the weather event will affect their operations and locations, as well as timing of impact.

The WeatherOps Commander portal allows administrators to view real-time weather information via our interactive map WeatherOps Display and access all products offered in the WeatherOps product suite. Administrative tasks:

• User account management allows admins to add or remove users and coordinate who receives products and alerts. User role definitions:
• Company Admin – has complete access to Commander and the ability to create/edit/delete assets, users and all product settings
• Asset Manager – can add and remove locations for organizations that relocate assets regularly
• Basic User – access to Commander for viewing the interactive map and all archive products, as well as personal account maintenance

WeatherOps supports you with our 24-hour help-desk for all technical issues or questions via phone or email. In addition, every new client will be professionally trained by a dedicated Customer Success Manager / Meteorologist.

• 1 and 24 hour precipitation amounts
• Extreme Precipitation Index – compares 6 and 24 hour precipitation totals to climatic return periods
• 24 hour water equivalent precipitation for snow
• Snow cover – updated daily for U.S. and adjacent North America
• 3-Day Snow and Ice outlooks

Only receive an alert when one of your asset locations is within the polygon. WeatherOps automatically filters and sends National Weather Service Watch/Warnings & Advisories, specific to your asset, all in mere seconds. We deliver standard National Weather Service watches, warnings, and advisories for weather events such as tornado, winter storm, flood, wind, tropical and fire via email, the WeatherOps Display, and the WeatherOps mobile app.

Alert information includes:

• Time of issue
• Time of expiration
• Full NWS bulletin text

On Mondays and Thursdays during the Atlantic tropical season, WeatherOps issues a longer-range threat outlook for the Atlantic Basin. This update covers the 6-10 day period with predictions for tropical cyclone development potential for sub-regions of the Atlantic basin, plus a detailed write-up describing these threats.

Tidetech data are viewable in our situation room-worthy WeatherOps Display. Tidetech’s global model combines tide and currents into one solution. High-resolution regions include: 

Currents 

• Global Currents and Tides - Combined—0.1° 
• Global Ocean—0.1° 
• Baltic Sea—4.4km 
• Bass Strait—4km 
• Biscay, Iberian Peninsula & Gibraltar Straight—0.03° 
• Chesapeake Bay—0.01° 
• English Channel—0.02° 
• Great Lakes—0.05° 
• Malacca & Singapore Straits—0.008° 
• New York—0.03° 
• Northwest European Shelf—0.04° 
• San Francisco—0.001° 
• Solent—100m 
• Sydney, Australia—0.001° 
• Tampa Bay, Florida—100m 

Observations 

• Indo-Australasian Sea Surface Height & Currents—0.2° 
• High-Resolution Sea Surface Temperatures—0.01° 

Ice 

• Global Ice Coverage—0.5°

The marine site-specific weather forecasts consist of a detailed 7-day Marine Daily Planner (presented in six-hourly time steps) including the following parameters (BOLD have customizable thresholds for color coding). Marine Weather Checks are similar forecasts but for a 48-hour period broken down into 2-hour increments.

• 10/50 Meter wind direction & speed including gusts (speed in knots)
• Wind Wave (heights in feet or meters)
• Primary surface swell (height in feet or meters)
• Significant wave (height in feet or meters)
• Maximum wave (height in feet or meters)
• Visibility (nautical miles)
• Air temperature (in degrees Fahrenheit or Celsius)
• Precipitation probability
• Thunderstorm probability

WeatherOps Display includes:

• Audibly and visually delivers asset threats
• Animating High-Resolution Radar
• Satellite, Tropical & Storm Data
• Severe Weather & Storm Cell Attributes
• Winter Weather Precipitation
• TideTech Eddy's Currents & Loop Currents

The marine site-specific weather forecasts consist of a detailed 7-day Marine Daily Planner (presented in six-hourly time steps) including the following parameters (BOLD have customizable thresholds for color coding). Marine Weather Checks are similar forecasts but for a 48-hour period broken down into 2-hour increments.

• 10/50 Meter wind direction & speed including gusts (speed in knots)
• Wind Wave (heights in feet or meters)
• Primary surface swell (height in feet or meters)
• Significant wave (height in feet or meters)
• Maximum wave (height in feet or meters)
• Visibility (nautical miles)
• Air temperature (in degrees Fahrenheit or Celsius)
• Precipitation probability
• Thunderstorm probability

The marine site-specific weather forecasts consist of a detailed 7-day Marine Daily Planner (presented in six-hourly time steps) including the following parameters (BOLD have customizable thresholds for color coding). Marine Weather Checks are similar forecasts but for a 48-hour period broken down into 2-hour increments.

• 10/50 Meter wind direction & speed including gusts (speed in knots)
• Wind Wave (heights in feet or meters)
• Primary surface swell (height in feet or meters)
• Significant wave (height in feet or meters)
• Maximum wave (height in feet or meters)
• Visibility (nautical miles)
• Air temperature (in degrees Fahrenheit or Celsius)
• Precipitation probability
• Thunderstorm probability

The marine site-specific weather forecasts consist of a detailed 7-day Marine Daily Planner (presented in six-hourly time steps) including the following parameters (BOLD have customizable thresholds for color coding). Marine Weather Checks are similar forecasts but for a 48-hour period broken down into 2-hour increments.

• 10/50 Meter wind direction & speed including gusts (speed in knots)
• Wind Wave (heights in feet or meters)
• Primary surface swell (height in feet or meters)
• Significant wave (height in feet or meters)
• Maximum wave (height in feet or meters)
• Visibility (nautical miles)
• Air temperature (in degrees Fahrenheit or Celsius)
• Precipitation probability
• Thunderstorm probability

The marine site-specific weather forecasts consist of a detailed 7-day Marine Daily Planner (presented in six-hourly time steps) including the following parameters (BOLD have customizable thresholds for color coding). Marine Weather Checks are similar forecasts but for a 48-hour period broken down into 2-hour increments.

• 10/50 Meter wind direction & speed including gusts (speed in knots)
• Wind Wave (heights in feet or meters)
• Primary surface swell (height in feet or meters)
• Significant wave (height in feet or meters)
• Maximum wave (height in feet or meters)
• Visibility (nautical miles)
• Air temperature (in degrees Fahrenheit or Celsius)
• Precipitation probability
• Thunderstorm probability