Contrary to popular perception, many more sectors require updated weather information than perceived. Skymet provides customized weather services to several sectors which include:

• Media

  We provide both weather data as well graphics packaging to newspapers, television, radio and the Internet. We can provide live on the spot data from 40 cities across India, satellite animations, three day forecasts, comfort Indices, track monsoon , cyclones and give warnings for extreme weather. We provide special fog updates from North-West India in Winter time and cover Indira Gandhi International Airport (IGIA) and New Delhi Railway Station.

• Agriculture

  Over 60% of India's population is involved in agriculture and only 40% of India's arable land is irrigated. This leaves millions of Indians at the mercy of the Monsoon. Here at Skymet we have combined our expertise in meteorology and agriculture to give accurate agromet forecasts. We track some of the most traded commodities in the commodity exchanges in India and try to project their state according to the forecast weather.
  
  

• Insurance

  We provide customized weather insurance policies to our customers. We can insure airlines, air passengers, food and beverage companies & construction activity against weather.
  
  
  
  

• Shipping

  We provide India's Oil and Natural Gas Commission (ONGC) forecast for their rig movement. Along with surface weather parameters we also track sea weather, i.e., wave, swell, gust, wind. In addition, we also provide ship routing services for vessels moving from any point to any point on the globe.
  
  
  
  

• Power

  The correlation between weather and power is 90%. Especially, when it comes to distribution power companies, they are interested in hourly forecasts with a requirement of very high degree of accuracy for temperature, rainfall and humidity. Maintenance of grids is also affected by severe weather. We provide very specific weather forecasting solutions for power distribution companies. And are also looking foreword to power trading on the power exchanges.
  

• Risk Management

  We provide integrated risk management strategies. Once the risk has been identified it can be minimized by two means: forecast the event that might cause the adversity; tailor a financial instrument like insurance or a market hedge against the risk. Agriculture, aviation, power, construction are our main targets.

• Renewable Energy

  Interest in renewable energy is growing across the world, from both industry and governments to contain climate change by replacing conventional energy sources. We support organizations investing in renewable technologies to understand returns in the long run. We do this by forecasting parameters affecting generation and verifying our forecasts with actual values over a period of time. This increases fidelity of planning power using forecast at a given location from a renewable energy source.