19th May 2008

Al Aan TV viewers are now benefiting from customizable leading-edge weather graphics technology, provided by Metra International’s Weatherscape CLIP™

Metra and Al Aan TV worked closely together to produce a bespoke design and feel, relevant to the weather conditions in the Middle East, including sandstorms, fog hollows, dust storms and shamal winds. Metra’s Dubai office also provides a 24 hour weather service, using international weather information and tailoring this to localized weather conditions.

In a unique collaborative project, five of the UK’s largest energy companies, three of the UK’s largest private weather companies and a specialist weather consultancy have joined forces to review the way that weather observations are provided to the UK energy industry.

In recognition of the vital importance that weather observations have to all aspects of the energy industry, Scottish and Southern Energy, Centrica Energy, E.ON UK, EDF Energy and National Grid, have commissioned an innovative study into the optionsfor the future provision of consistent long term data of weat her observations, which will lead to improved forecasts to the energy industry.

March 11, 2008

Metra Information Ltd, the commercial and international subsidiary of New Zealand’s public weather forecaster, MetService, has taken a 50% stake in a private UK forecasting company Weather Commerce with a view to a complete buy-out in three years.

This is the first time Metra has taken an equity position in a foreign forecaster although, it has a number of high profile customers in the UK, Europe, North America and the Middle East.

Weatherscape’s Material Editor is part of a growing list of powerful and creative authoring tools that keeps Metra at the forefront of weather presentation technology. Material Editor enables users to create unique and visually striking weather show that incorporates 3D graphics driven directly by weather data elements - taking weather presentation to a new level of realism.

“A mountain snow line that changes with the freezing level or ocean waves that adapt to the forecasted wave height are just two examples of the exceptional graphical features that can be created easily using Material Editor”, says Tom Sutherland, International Sales and Marketing Manager, Metra.

Friday 27th July 2007

Weatherscape XT has improved its ‘Cyclone Tracker’ capabilities within its acclaimed Weatherscape XTweather graphics system. The system enables the automated display of global cyclone, hurricane or typhoon information.

Data such as current position, name, category number and maximum central wind speed as well as historical track and forecast position are automatically plotted and displayed on the Weatherscape XT globe for any location in the world. Other data such as areas of hurricane, strong gale, gale and storm force winds are also plotted graphically, if the information is available from the hurricane reporting centre.