What's New...
1st May 2012 After many man years of development we are pleased to announce the release of SWS 8.0, the latest version of the pre-eminent weather derivative pricing and risk management software. Click here for the press release.
26th March 2012
Coming Soon: Many sites in the USA shows significant temperature discontinuities over their history. Our Recalibrated Data Sets adjust for these by producing a data set consistent with current oberservation conditions/location and instruments. After a number of years of providing these for CME weather derivative reference sites, we will soon be releasing a pack of over 200. Subscribers will receive the adjusted time series of TMin and TMax and have access to monitors alerting to any current changes in site behaviour.
25th January 2012
We are posting updates on the behaviour of weather reference sites for our Recalibrated Data clients on a new page. This requires user login. Please click here and choose the Recalibrated Data Set Apps tab. This allows us to post updates between our regular monthly updates. Click here for information about Recalibrated Data Sets.
14th December 2011
Speedwell Weather is awarded Best Global Weather Risk Management Advisory/Data Service 2011, by Environmental Finance and Carbon Finance. The survey - the most closely watched poll of sentiment across carbon, renewable energy, weather risk and US emissions markets - reveals those firms that their clients, peers and competitors have judged to have provided the best service over the previous twelve months. Please click here for the press release.
5th December 2011
Please click here for an analysis of November London Heathrow temperatures in historical context.
1st December 2011
We are now able to supply the RAW ECMWF output as well as the downscaled 15-day product. Please see here for more information.
21st November 2011
Our downscaled ECMWF monthly forecast is now available twice per week on Thursdays and now Mondays.
9th November 2011
We have had a lot of requests recently for snow data in the USA and Europe and for solar radiation data in Europe. We have cleaned dozens of snowfall data sets for many of our SuperPack clients (for no extra charge..all part of the service). Solar radiation data can be tough to find in Europe. We can provide HOURLY solar radiation data for sites in the UK, Netherlands and Germany.
3rd November 2011
UK: We have moved into our new office premises in Harpenden. Our address is the same but we now occupy a complete floor of the building. The new office provides us with a more pleasant and more efficient working space and the room we need to continue growing.
20th October 2011
Recalibrated data sets: We have just issued the latest 6-monthly updates to data packs for key US sites to reflect recent changes at the 24 US CME sites. We have identified significant discontinuities in two stations one of which is more than 2 degrees F.
19th October 2011
We are pleased to welcome a new employee to our USA office. Adam Frumkin will assist the team with our growing data, forecast and consultancy products. Adam has a Masters in meteorology from Florida State University.
26th August 2011
We have moved offices in the USA from Alexandria in Virginia to Charleston South Carolina. Our new premises give us the room to expand in a location that provides a very pleasant working and living environment. If you are in the area, please contact us. We would be pleased to see you.
Our new address is 418 King St, Floor 2, Charleston, SC 29403, USA.
Our new telephone number is + 1 (843) 737-4843.
6th July 2011
We continue to expand our range of historical data sets and feeds. Please see herefor recent additions.
European Windstorm data: we have produced an unusually high density historical data set for European windstorms from the 1970s and on. Please contact us for more information.
We are delighted to be helping more clients looking for historical hourly and daily weather data who are disappointed with the response times of the national met offices: we are a private business who understand the importance of rapid response. We carry a huge archive of weather data from around the world and we have the systems to be able to deliver this data as one-off historical data sets or as daily or hourly realtime feeds.
We have been fielding a lot of requests for hourly wind data and for snowfall data recently. Other requests over the last two months have been as eclectic as ever including: Indian rainfall; Brazilian hourly wind speed; Chilean rainfall; Austrian temperature; Guatemalan rainfall; Belize rainfall; Finnish temperature; Republic of Ireland rainfall; UK hourly cloud cover, smoothed temperature averages for Croatian sites; Welsh hourly wind speed; hourly sunshine data for South Africa; temperature and solar radiation for South Korea; rainfall for Bulgaria; and extended hourly wind data histories for Texas.
7th March 2011
The data team have had a busy quarter fielding an unusually wide range of client requests for weather data and feeds. SuperPack (our open subscription to ALL our data) continues to grow as a result: expansion of our cleaned US snowfall sets; addition of more hourly wind data for UK; expansion of our Swiss data sets; expansion of UK snowfall data sets, Brazilian hourly, Danish hourly, Thai daily, Korean solar radiation and the addition of another US non-government US network. SuperPack provides access to data not already in our archives on a reasonable-request basis. More often than not, we find it!
5th January:2011
- Cold December 2010: an update. Click here to see a summary of how key European cities, a 150 year proxy for Heathrow and the CET have turned out.
23rd December 2010
- We are delighted to have been voted Best Advisory/Data Service Provider in the Weather Risk Management category of the 2010 Environmental Finance market survey.
- SuperPack Update: We have added two more private networks in the USA: FAWN and CoAg. These extend our coverage for sites in Florida and Colorado and in particular provide solar radiation data not available through the NCDC network.
2nd December 2010
- Speedwell Weather System software development update: Click here for an update on what the development team is working on. - SuperPack update: We have just added Korean climate data and feeds including sunshine and solar radiation. Click here to see other data sets we have added recently. Click here for Map Viewer / Data Audit Tool. As a reminder to SuperPack clients, if a site or weather variable you need is not on the list..just ask. We can usually find it. Usually for no extra charge.
- SWSConnect: we are seeing more users on SWSConnect which is our web-delivered version of SWS..and so we are responding to requests to add functionality that has always been available on the full version of SWS. With the latest release users can now select El Nino or La Nina years for pricing (logon required)
20th November 2010
- Recalibrated Data: there seems to be a lot going on with US CME sites in the update this month. For users unfamiliar with the product, these data sets adjust key US and European sites for historic site moves and instrument discontinuities. The difference over a 50 year period can be VERY significant with the biggest magnitude difference being >2.5F on TMin and > 1.6 on TMax DAILY
Browsers: Please note that this website runs MUCH faster on Firefox and faster still on Chrome.
Weather Forecast
Speedwell Weather supplies site-specific ensemble forecasts across the world covering
15-day, monthly and seasonal periods.
The ensemble forecast is a probabilistic forecast which inherently captures information
that is normally lost in a traditional deterministic forecast.
Forecasts can be delivered both with interactive web-delivered tools and as underlying
data. Web-based forecast delivery gives users the ability to view, interrogate,
and verify archived forecasts as well as overlay historical data.
Speedwell Weather supplies forecasts to clients in Energy and Weather Derivative
Markets across the globe.
Weather Derivative Software
Speedwell Weather supplies the definitive weather derivative pricing and risk management
system, the Speedwell Weather System, SWS.
The product of over ten years of continuous development, SWS offers sophisticated
pricing tools as well as portfolio management and full back office functionality.
Weather Risk Placement
and Consultancy
Speedwell Weather are experts in analysing, structuring and
placing weather risk.
In our capacity as a regulated independent consultancy we are able to assist companies
in quantifying their weather exposure and then to structure and place such risk
with the weather derivative risk-taking community.
Since its establishment in 1999, we have cultivated extensive
relationships in the weather risk-taking community amongst all types of participants.
These include insurance companies, banks, energy companies and investment funds.
We do not act as principals ourselves and nor are we exclusively aligned to a single
principal.