need a global wx website

[Brian A. Schmidt]

Hi everyone. I'm hoping someone can steer me in the correct direction on my dilemma. I work in a newly created global security department of a Fortune 100 company and recent events have convinced us that we need to begin incorporating weather monitoring into our role. Specifically, we need to protect our property and personnel on a global scale. Travel is also a big issue since we have thousands of employees in transit at any given moment and we need to provide timely travel advisories. I would like to know if anyone here can point me toward websites or services which can supply us with up-to-date forecasts and satellite views for all regions. Most importantly, the website should be non-technical and easy to use-- because there will be multiple users and none of them have any education in meteorology. Does such a site exist? Anything you can recomend would be appreciated. Money is no object here BTW and the management would most likely want the best available. Thanks.

 

[Tarmo Tanilsoo]

If you are interested in weather warnings, then many European weather services send them also to www.meteoalarm.eu . Many weather observations an forecasts can also be found at http://worldweather.wmo.int

 

[Michael P. Morris]

This sounds like the kind of thing that you would hire a third party firm to handle for you, unless you have meteorologists on staff to decode the warning text and have it sent to cellular phones or other mobile devices. A few companies that I can think of that do this kind of thing are AccuWeather (located in Pennsylvania), WeatherData (in Wichita) and Weather Decision Technologies (Norman), though there are many others out there that I can't think of right now.

 

[Brian A. Schmidt]

Oops...sorry for not acknowledging your replies sooner but I was out of town. Thanks for the info. Tarmo, I will take a look at these. Michael-- good point, I guess I was assuming the data we got would be intended for the general public, much like what we see from TWC, NOAA etc.-- I just need global coverage from preferably a single site, and that is where the difficulty in finding one is.

 

[D. Hayes]

I don't think there is one that does it good.

I'm curious what's it worth because I'm sure someone here could use the cash and could build such a site.