Austrian severe weather center
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| languages | German |
| operator | UBIMET GmbH |
| http://www.unwetterzentrale.at | |
The Austrian severe weather center based in Vienna is operated by the private weather service UBIMET . UBIMET is the largest private weather service in Austria. In cooperation with leading insurers in Austria , the Severe Weather Center provides private individuals, emergency services and communities around the clock with early weather warnings for their postcode area . The registered subscribers are warned of impending hail , intense heavy rain , storms, heavy fresh snow and freezing rain by SMS , email , fax or app .
history
The company was founded in September 2004 under the name meteomedia gmbh as a subsidiary of the Meteomedia Group in Vienna by the private weather service UBIMET (then still meteomedia gmbh). The declared aim of the company founders was to significantly improve the weather forecast in Austria and to break the oligopoly of the state weather services ( ZAMG , Austro Control ) that existed at the time .
Just one year after it was founded, important customers such as the press , ÖBB or UNIQA Versicherung were won, and a separate forecast center for extreme weather events - the Austrian Severe Weather Center - was set up. In the meantime, the severe weather center provides more than 300,000 customers in Austria (as of February 2010) with severe weather warnings through cooperations with various insurance companies. The great success in Austria enabled the operator to offer this service in several countries in Eastern and Southeastern Europe from January 2009 .
In December 2008, the shares in the Meteomedia group were bought back by the company's founders. With the repurchase of the shares, the name was changed from meteomedia gmbh to UBIMET GmbH, where UBIMET stands for “Institute for UBIquitary (ubiquitous) METeorology”. UBIMET is headquartered in Vienna .
In addition to the Austrian market, UBIMET also serves customers in Eastern Europe. The company offers weather forecasts in traditional media ( newspapers , radio ), on the Internet and as wireless data services on mobile phones . The latter includes severe weather warnings in a total of seven languages. The largest customer groups are the infrastructure sector , authorities and the insurance sector .
The Red Bull Group has held a 50% stake in the company since 2012 .
In addition to the severe weather center in Austria, UBIMET also operates severe weather centers in Germany ( Deutsches Unwetterradar - uwr.de), Poland (burzoweinfo.pl), the Czech Republic (metva.cz), Hungary (viharcentrum.hu) and Romania (meteoalert.ro)
technology
The severe weather center is manned around the clock by several specially trained meteorologists . Every severe weather warning is issued personally by the meteorologist; there are no automated severe weather warnings . Global and high-resolution local numerical models , satellite and radar images , radio soundings , station measurements by the state weather service and private weather services are available to meteorologists for their work . The warnings are sent to the subscribers by SMS, email or fax up to 12 hours in advance by SMS, email or fax, depending on the event. The "individualized, nowcasting-based disaster and storm warning system" (INDUS) was developed in order to enable tens of thousands of subscribers to be warned at the same time. The language independence of this technology also enables the severe weather warnings to be offered in other countries. Customers can choose the language in which they want to receive the warnings regardless of their country or place of residence.
In the Internet portal of the Severe Weather Center, interested parties can inform round the clock about the current weather and storms developing the next day. In 2013 the web presence of the severe weather center reached more than 9 million visitors.
Warning levels
Depending on the intensity of the expected storm, there are 4 different warning levels. The lowest warning level in yellow is issued if a storm is possible within the next 24 to 36 hours but not yet secured. If a storm is announced in the immediate future (1 to 12 hours), the acute warning is issued in the corresponding color orange , red or purple . With acute warnings of the strongest intensities red and purple , it is not uncommon for disabilities or impairments in public life ( rail , road , air traffic, etc.).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ ATTC - Austrian Traffic Telematics Cluster, Association for the Promotion of telematics ; Retrieved March 29, 2010
- ↑ Good business with bad weather in Die Presse of June 24, 2009
- ↑ Severe weather center: warning of severe weather
- ↑ Article in krone.at: Severe weather center warns in a flash
- ↑ Press release , Kurier, June 24, 2009
- ↑ Information from UNIQA Versicherung on the new severe weather warning service with meteomedia gmbh ( Memento from February 17, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Five years of UNIQA severe weather warning - prevention that works ( Memento from January 5, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
- ↑ Red Bull discovers the weather forecast , Handelsblatt , July 7, 2012
- ↑ Research & Discover: Individual storm warnings
- ^ Announcements from the Center for Innovation and Technology ( Memento from December 3, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
Coordinates: 48 ° 14 ′ 2 ″ N , 16 ° 22 ′ 57 ″ E