Meteomatics
"The Global Leader in Weather Intelligence"
Swiss weather-intelligence firm Meteomatics runs Meteodrones and a 1,800-parameter Weather API used by 700+ clients including NASA, Tesla and Airbus.
Meteomatics is a Swiss weather-intelligence company headquartered in St. Gallen, Switzerland, founded in 2012 by Dr. Martin Fengler, a former developer of numerical weather prediction code at Meteomedia AG. The company grew from a small core team into an international organization of more than 170 employees from over 30 countries, with additional account-management and sales offices in Germany, France, the United Kingdom, and other locations, for a total of six global office sites.
The company's primary product is the Meteomatics Weather API, which delivers more than 1,800 weather and environmental parameters aggregated from over 110 data sources, covering historical, real-time, and forecast data. Its proprietary high-resolution numerical weather models, EURO1k and US1k, generate forecasts at 1-kilometer resolution, run on a compute cluster of roughly 40,000 CPU cores, and draw on an accumulated weather database exceeding 15 petabytes. Meteomatics also builds and operates Meteodrones, purpose-built unmanned aircraft that collect atmospheric profile data up to an altitude of 6 kilometers to improve the accuracy of hyperlocal forecasts, particularly in data-sparse regions. Additional products include MetX, a weather-data visualization platform, and a configurable Weather Alerts service.
Meteomatics states that its data and forecasting tools are used by more than 700 companies and institutions worldwide, citing customers such as Tesla, NASA, Airbus, Shell, SAP, and Toyota, and CVS Health, and that it serves the energy, insurance, aviation, government and defense, agriculture, water management, automotive, shipping, and offshore sectors. Its team includes meteorologists, data scientists, hydrologists, physicists, and drone engineers.
The company can be reached at its St. Gallen headquarters by phone at +41 71 272 66 50, and it maintains official LinkedIn and YouTube channels. Meteomatics' brand messaging includes the taglines "The Global Leader in Weather Intelligence" and "Make Your Business Predictable." All facts in this profile are drawn from Meteomatics' own corporate website, including its company/about-us and newsroom pages.
Primary type & automation activities this supplier delivers:
Meteodrone
Weather drone measuring atmospheric profiles up to 6,000m altitude with about 22-minute flight time and parachute recovery.
Meteoglider
Reusable glider that recovers radiosondes after weather-balloon release, reaching 30-35km altitude and returning via GPS guidance.
Weather API
REST API delivering global weather, ocean, and climate data from 1,800+ parameters and 110+ models, with records back to 1940.
Contact Meteomatics
WEBSITE
https://www.meteomatics.comPHONE
+41 71 272 66 50HEADQUARTERS
Switzerland
Company Facts
Founded
2012
Primary Role
Manufacturer
Company Size
employees 100-500
Primary Region
Europe
Annual Sales
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Funding Stage
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Funding Total
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Keywords
- Meteomatics
- weather intelligence
- Meteodrones
- weather API
- numerical weather prediction
- EURO1k model
- hyperlocal forecasting
- atmospheric data collection
- St. Gallen Switzerland
- MetX visualization
- Manufacturer
- Software/Algorithm
- Drone/eVTOL
- Cloud & Data
- Agriculture
- Aerospace & Space
- Defense & Security
- Oil
- Gas & Energy
NOAA Expands Weather Forecasting with Drones from Swiss Company Meteomatics
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is enhancing its weather forecasting capabilities by integrating drones into its data collection methods. Collaborating with Swiss technology firm Meteomatics, NOAA is currently testing the Meteodrones at a pilot site near the University of Oklahoma. This initiative aims to improve the accuracy and efficiency of weather models, particularly for severe weather warnings. The addition of drones is significant as it addresses the limitations of traditional weather balloons, which are costly and typically used only once. Meteomatics' hexacopters can be operated repeatedly and remotely, allowing for more flexible data collection based on real-time weather conditions. This capability is expected to enhance the precision of weather data, ultimately leading to better forecasting and warning systems for events like tornadoes and hurricanes. As Meteomatics continues to develop its drone operations in the U.S., it has already established a network of drone data-collection sites in Europe. The company’s Meteodrones are designed to withstand challenging weather conditions and are compliant with U.S. government regulations. No further timeline was disclosed at the time of publication.
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