Met Office improves online marine weather forecast service

Offshore staff

ABERDEEN -- The Met Office has launched a new version of Safesee, its online marine weather forecast service.

The upgrade includes a global map viewer that allows decision-makers in marine and offshore industries to visualize weather elements over their operating sites.

The new map viewer helps bring the weather to life over a selected area, with the weather elements animating through time. In addition, sites can be viewed as locations on the map and a hover-over summary shows the forecast conditions against operating thresholds. This helps the operator to make decisions that minimize downtime due to bad weather and improve safety, the Met Office says.

08/10/2009