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NorthWest Weathernet offers a varied range of services to agencies, companies, and other organizations having a wide array of weather-related concerns. Prospective clients may choose to utilize one of the many existing NorthWest Weathernet products, or it may be necessary to develop a customized approach to meet a client's specific needs. Summarized below are just a few of the types and levels of service we provide. If you don't see what you need below, let us know. We'll be happy to work with you to provide a solution.

• 24-Hour-a-Day, 365-Day-a-Year Phone Consultation
• 24-Hour Emergency and Alert Notification
• Daily Written Forecasts
• Transportation Weather Services
• Weather Services and the Energy Trades
• News Media Forecast Services
• Agricultural Weather Products
• Recreation Forecasts
• Construction: Engineering and Industrial
• Legal, Forensic, Professional Witness, State Representation
• Workplace Safety

• 24-Hour-a-Day, 365-Day-a-Year Phone Consultation

  This basic level of service is provided to every NorthWest Weathernet client. Highly trained and experienced forecasters are always on duty to provide verbal briefings to our clients and answer questions regarding changing weather conditions. Anyone who answers the phone is a qualified meteorologist. You will never get a receptionist, answering service, recording, or pager. This type of service cannot be obtained from government forecasting services.

• 24-Hour Emergency and Alert Notification

  This level of service is provided to clients who have determined that certain weather events are critical to their operations and have identified threshold criteria at which they must take mitigative action. For such clients, NorthWest Weathernet offers an alert service whereby we constantly monitor pertinent weather developments and notify the client, with the maximum possible leadtime, of a potential problem in the making. This "no news is good news" approach allows the client to go about his business secure in the knowledge that he will be notified at any time day or night of an impending weather threat. Of course, as always, the client is always welcome to call for a briefing if he has some question or concern.

• Daily Written Forecasts

  This product option is utilized by both government clients and the construction industry. It typically consists of once or twice daily written forecasts detailing short-range and medium-range weather for specific sites or areas of interest to the client. Forecast elements are presented in concise, plain-language formats, rather than technical jargon. Transmittal of these written forecasts is accomplished via direct fax, e-mail, computer-to-computer transfer, or by means of our password protected client forecast option on this website. Clients receiving this service are encouraged to call for verbal updates to the written forecasts. Forecasts are generated through a mix of future technologies and human experience to provide a maximized product/service which relates to the end user.

• Transportation Weather Services

  NorthWest Weathernet provides route and site specific road weather services for the western mountain states and provinces of North America. Services include comprehensive umbrella programs which focus on all aspects of intermountain weather and its affects on public transportation around the clock all days of the year. Weathernet programs are popular with county and city public works, government emergency management, construction and engineering, DOT maintenance divisions and highway patrol. The Weathernet program stresses the development of clearly defined communications and understanding of needs between the end user and the Weathernet meteorologist. A significant portion of the Weathernet process is interacting with clients in the field. Weathernet provides Road Weather Information Services (RWIS) for agencies having site specific road snow and ice prediction interests. Weathernet also provides advanced applied services associated with Maintenance Decision Support Systems (MDSS). Client references are available upon request.

• Weather Services and the Energy Trades

  NorthWest Weathernet provides routine weather forecasting services to a variety of energy resource clients, such as natural gas providers, and major electric utility companies. These forecasts are used by the utility clients to plan for short-term and long-term energy loads. Weather variables that can impact energy loads include temperature, wind, precipitation, and cloud cover. Advanced notice of significant regional weather changes can significantly reduce costs for these clients in terms of acquisition and allocation of key energy resources. We also provide our energy utility clients with long-range monthly and seasonal outlooks, which are based in large part on climate research conducted in-house by our own staff.

• News Media Forecast Services

  Our news media clients range from radio and television stations to major regional newspapers. In the realm of broadcast media, we have the capability of providing a variety of services, including actual on-air broadcasting, "behind-the-scenes" written forecasts and briefings to on-air personalities, and periodic special interviews for radio and television during times of high public concern in severe weather events.

  NorthWest Weathernet is also one of the few commercial weather services nationwide that offers a full suite of newspaper weatherpage services, including full color graphics capability and customized forecasts and statistics that include specifics for the newspaper's primary distribution area as well as data from around the region, the nation, and the world.

• Agricultural Weather Products

  Recent budgetary cutbacks within the National Weather Service have eliminated most of the agricultural weather services and closed many small offices that for many years have provided critical weather information to the agriculture industry across the United States. In response to this sudden information vacuum, the commercial weather industry is stepping in to help the farmers attain the same (or better!) level of weather information services they have had in the past. NorthWest Weathernet offers specific forecasts to the agricultural community, including current observations and forecasts of temperature (and freeze potential), wind, precipitation, humidity, evaporation (and evapotranspiration) that are seasonally critical to various crops. Dissemination of this information can occur by means of written forecasts, recorded "weatherphone" messages, internet web pages, and of course the old standby, verbal briefings.

• Recreation Forecasts

  NorthWest Weathernet has well-established historical ties to the skiing, boating, and golfing industries. To date, forecasts to these industries have been primarily geared toward the maintenance services end of these recreation industries.

• Construction: Engineering and Industrial

  NorthWest Weathernet is a leader in providing site-specific weather forecasts for developers and the construction trades for intermountain states of western North America. The founder of NorthWest Weathernet has many years of experience working in and with the engineering/construction community and has brought the science of meteorology and the specific requirements of the construction trades together. Management services increase productive use of labor, materials and planning efficiency and help reduce site losses. Weathernet construction services have become a standard in the trades across the western states. Construction services are provided to contractors in the following states:

  
  • Alaska
  • Arizona
  • California
  • Colorado
  • Idaho
  • Hawaii
  • Montana
  • Nevada
  • New Mexico
  • Oregon
  • Utah
  • Washington
  • Wyoming
  • Canada –
    • Alberta
    • British Columbia

• Legal, Forensic, Professional Witness, State Representation

  Weather related life and property claims are on the rise. Defining fault or liability is many times a challenge when speculation of weather events exists. Weathernet provides options for the legal trades which will help eliminate the guesswork. Weathernet has represented plaintiff’s counsel and defense cases ranging from transportation to construction claims to criminal justice since 1980. Government clients of NorthWest Weathernet are automatically represented in the event of legal recourse in which weather was a factor.

• Workplace Safety

  Weathernet services are utilized for industrial workplace safety zones where severe weather can directly impact life and property. Alerting programs are available for timely preparedness as well as maintaining manufacturing productivity.