Colin Morris's Contact Details

Colin Morris's Company Details

AfricaWeather

Sandton, Gauteng, South Africa • 22 Employees
Information Technology & Services

AfricaWeather is the leading commercial weather services provider across the African continent. We assist our clients in managing weather risks efficiently through solutions that are easy to implement and have a direct impact on the profitability for our clients.We service 17 of the top 40 JSE companies and have built bespoke weather solutions for the following industries: Insurance, Big Industry (Mining & Construction), Aviation, Marine Ports, Sports Facilities, Utilities, Media – accurate forecasts and maps.Our eight year partnership with SAWS has enabled use to utilise the national radar and lightning detection networks across SA. We have a commercial EUMETSAT license and use a high-resolution model of ECMWF over South Africa to generate point specific forecasts for our clients. We recently partnered with the leading Australian commercial weather services provider, who have extensive experience in mining, marine, aviation and utilities.AfricaWeather services are used as a critical safety tool to monitor our clients operations 24/7 and notify relevant personnel when severe weather such as storms and lightning will impact the safety of people and assets. Our online system is used in conjunction with our email/sms notifications. We empower clients to make informed decisions with the real time information, available at their fingertips. We have built operational management tools to minimize our client's downtime due to adverse weather. We provide a traffic light system driven by unusual weather that highlights which operational tasks will be impacted. We ensure that decision-making is easy by providing our clients with near term accurate forecasts, to assist them with short, medium and long term planning of how weather will impact their operations. This capability comes from having automated weather stations on the ground feeding real time information, into the online system. Visit our website: https://www.africaweather.com for more information