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.
The infamous southerly buster will move up the NSW coast on Wednesday impacting port operations in the region. Southerly busters are an abrupt southerly change with wind gusts exceeding 54 km/h (29 knots) and a temperature drop of at least 5°C in three hours. Sydney typically receives five busters a year, with three already […]
The remnants of Severe Tropical Cyclone Megan will carry heavy rain across the NT over the next few days as communities assess the damage in the powerful system’s wake. Megan made landfall as a category three severe tropical cyclone on Monday afternoon, crossing the coast to the southeast of Port McArthur. The tropical cyclone caused […]
Destructive winds have started to lash the NT coastline as Severe Tropical Cyclone Megan edges closer to making landfall. At 9:30am ACST on Monday, March 18, Severe Tropical Cyclone Megan was a category three system located 55 km east northeast of Port McArthur. The satellite images below show the powerful cyclone sitting over the Gulf […]
While Monday’s national weather focus is on Severe Tropical Cyclone Megan in the Gulf of Carpentaria, another big system is looming down south that will impact southern Australia in coming days. The first strong cold front of autumn 2024 is heading the way of southeastern Australia and Tasmania and will bring strong blustery winds along […]