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This custom report includes 14 separate weather parameters, including sea-state conditions and ability to set custom thresholds for your vessel(s).
Our offshore asset-based report offers a more granular look at the weather forecast for the following 48 hours in two-hour time increments. Plan. Protect. Profit.
Quickly assess threats for onshore locations over the following 7 days, including wind, hail, and tornado potential with our most popular weather planner.
WeatherOps issues regularly scheduled tropical updates throughout the active season. This tool helps operators by highlighting actions to secure vessels.
WeatherOps provides track and intensity forecasts for tropical features we consider likely to develop into cyclones as well as forecasts for named storms.
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.
WeatherOps' automated systems and data streams provide real-time lightning proximity alerting including “all-clear” notifications for point and areal locations.
WeatherOps automatically filters and sends National Weather Service Watches, Warnings, and Advisories specific to an asset, all in just seconds.
Access WeatherOps information for all assets from a single screen no matter where you are with our companion app available on the App Store & Google Play.
WeatherOps weather forecasts allow vessel personnel to customize weather parameter thresholds to ensure safe operations.
Quickly identify weather risks for all of your vessels or offshore assets with this color-coded threat matrix. Available in 2, 6, 12, and 24 hr increments.
This valuable tool allows users to choose a location, date and time period, then receive a map and list of lightning strikes that occurred.
An assessment of potential tropical impacts for single or multiple vessels in one report that provides guidnce regarding arrival of storm-related conditions.
Twice per week during the Atlantic tropical season, WeatherOps issues a long-range threat outlook to outlines potential development.
An assessment of tropical cyclone impacts as well as timing of forecasted winds in relation to a vessel's proximity and unique shut-down plan.
Manage users, assets, and events, customize forecasts and asset-based alerts, set product and alert distribution, view maps and report archives.
Not quite sure about your decision? Our MetWatch service provides access to a meteorologist any time of day. This is the best way to ensure safety.
Accurate, detailed oceanographic data that meets the specific needs of shipping and offshore interests. TideTech data drops right into WeatherOps.
Our interactive display combines situational awareness with weather decision analytics, overlaying your assets on a map that's worthy of any situation room.
WeatherOps GIS helps you tell your story through interactive mapping technology by providing the largest selection of weather layers on the market today.
WeatherOps maintains the richest set of global present and historical weather data analytics on the market today.
Gain access to our precision-verified 10-day forecasts with daily and hourly data as well as current observations for any location on the planet.
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Director of WeatherOps Forecast Services
Chris Kerr joined WDT in May 2012 as a founding member of WeatherOps and as Lead Forecaster. Since that time he has become Director of WeatherOps Forecast Services and has helped grow WeatherOps into a top notch global leader in forecaster services and decision support. Chris has over ten years of operational forecasting, asset protection, decision support and managerial experience. He is highly involved in the planning and implementation of techniques and processes that allow WeatherOps to produce high-resolution global forecasts and fully customizable alerting.
Chris has extensive experience in the marine weather sector and is well-versed in cross-ocean and fixed position site forecasting, tropical cyclone forecasting/climatology and worldwide ocean basin climatology.
Forecast Operations Supervisor
7-day color coded site-specific forecast
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.
48-hour color-coded forecast for an offshore asset
Built to cross language barriers at sea while assuring safety and profitibility, our detailed 48-hour offshore asset-based forecast includes the following parameters:
Forecasts
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.
Forecasts
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.
Active tropical system summary
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:
Prepare your crews with impact information that pinpoints exact timing of specific condition types
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
T-Time Report
Our team of forecasters monitor your assets globally and issue alerts on weather threats
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:
Outlook
Marine
Thunderstorm
Tropical
Winter
Wind
Provide safety to the max with the WeatherOps lightning proximity monitor
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.
Manage your company’s weather risk from anywhere you happen to be
Making your forecast truly your forecast
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:
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.
Drawing your attention to the threats ahead
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.
Prove the presence of lightning with a single report that’s recognized by most insurance providers
7-day forecast for thunderstorm and heavy rainfall impacts
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.
As good as having an on-staff meteorologist watching after your assets
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.
Commander is the admin interface for WeatherOps
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:
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.
Interactive Map
NOAA’s National Weather Service products delivered instantly from our patented alerting engine
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
Alert information includes:
Look beyond the standard forecast period and stay ahead of the storm
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.
Extremely valuable weather data for coastal and offshore interests presented in stunningly beautiful maps
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
Observations
Ice
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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.
The interactive map displays weather data and decision analytic layers overlaid on a global map
WeatherOps Display includes:
Marine Based Daily Planner and Weather Check
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.
Marine Based Daily Planner and Weather Check
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.
Marine Based Daily Planner and Weather Check
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.
Marine Based Daily Planner and Weather Check
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.
Assess the risk for lightning and prove or disprove the presence of strikes at any location by accessing our world-class database of strike information for a specified location and date or span of dates.
Get A Lightning ReportThis popular report offers a complete climatological profile and includes a detailed history of observed rain, wind, lightning, and temperature information as well as a long-range forecast for any location and date range.
Create Your ReportOur Weather Impact Report is the fastest way to prove or disprove the presence of specific types of weather or conditions after weather occurrence. These reports are a perfect supplement for insurance claims and legal matters.
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