OpticastTM V5 is Weatherzone’s cloud-based, consensus forecasting solution that delivers precise weather data to your business, both nationally and globally.
Independently verified to significantly outperform other industry models, Opticast gives you a strategic advantage if weather impacts your enterprise. Armed with the most accurate nowcasting and forecasting data, you can mitigate operational and safety risks, and plan to make the most of severe weather windows.
Opticast is powered by machine learning, intelligently adapting to the local conditions of your site area. Gain a world-leading forecasting system that rapidly responds to changing conditions.
We give you the foresight to make quick and powerful decisions when you need to protect your valuable team and assets, and ensure maximum productivity.
Opticast utilises on-site observations to real-time verify, ensuring nowcasting accuracy.
Over 30 meteorological parameters, based on integrated global and regional Numerical Weather Prediction models, are delivered directly to your customisable interface.
Opticast provides you with clear and actionable insight to guide your business through increasingly extreme weather.
Regional and global NWP models integrate and optimise to your local environment.
Reliable 14 day forecasts allow you to plan key work schedules well in advance.
Severe weather and lightning alerts are delivered in real-time to any device, anywhere.
Weatherzone Business works tirelessly to provide the most accurate and comprehensive weather insights to serve your enterprise’s individual needs.
Whether you require severe weather warnings, rapid-update forecasting, solar actuals and forecasts, blast dispersion modelling, in-depth consultancy, easily deployed weather stations or any other high-precision meteorological service, we can create a reliable, bespoke solution.
The weather is our passion, as are the ways in which we can work with your business to manage the operational effects of the rapidly changing global climate.
Get in touch with us and we can equip you with the solutions you need to optimise your decision-making and mitigate serious weather risk and cost.
A prolonged rainfall event is set to bring large totals to parts of NSW and Qld from Saturday, with possible heavy falls and flooding. A low-pressure system in the Coral Sea, a deepening coastal trough and persistent easterlies will bring moisture-laden air into southeast Qld and northeast NSW will bring days of rainfall to the […]
It’s a chilly and showery end to the working week across southeastern Australia, after a strong surge of south to southeasterly winds pushed cool air across the region overnight. Melburnians awoke to some welcome rain with 6 mm in the gauge in the 24 hours to 9 am, most of it falling around dawn. After […]
A weeklong stretch of low wind power was broken on Wednesday evening, as a weak cold front marched across southern Australia. The chart below shows that the National Electricity Market (NEM) has endured a weeklong stretch of low wind generation, with wind power providing around 6% of the NEM’s electricity, down from last year’s average […]
The Bureau of Meteorology has officially declared El Niño over and the El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) is now inactive for the first time since 2021, meaning there is no immediate sign of either an El Niño or a La Niña event. “El Niño has ended and the El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO) has returned to neutral. Climate models […]
