Foreca
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Native name | Foreca Oy |
|---|---|
| Company type | Subsidiary |
| Genre | Weather forecasting |
| Founded | 1996 |
| Headquarters | , |
| Website | www.foreca.com |
Foreca Ltd is a private Finnish weather forecasting company, the largest of its kind in the Nordic countries, headquartered in Espoo, Finland. Foreca is a customer-driven company focusing on providing weather services for international business use. This service is partly based on data and products of the European Centre for Medium-range Weather Forecasts. .
Foreca was first established in 1996 under the name Weather Service Finland. In January 2001 it changed its name to Foreca as part of its effort to expand the company internationally.[1]
Foreca is providing weather and road weather services in the automotive, digital media and winter road maintenance industries. Since 2004, the company has had a contract with Microsoft to produce content for their international MSN websites, and Microsoft Windows. Foreca provides weather for drivers having customers from automotive, such like Daimler, BMW and TomTom.
The company offers a free weather forecast smartphone application called ForecaWeather Free. It provides current conditions, 10-day weather forecasts and weather animations for any location world-wide. The application is available for Android, iOS and Windows 10 devices.
References
- ^ "Weather Service Finlandista tuli Foreca". Digitoday. 2001-01-09. Retrieved 2013-07-21.
External links
- Foreca.fi Official website in Finnish
- Foreca.com Official website in English
- Foreca.mobi Mobile website
- ecmwf.int - European Centre for Medium-range Weather Forecasts
- MSN Weather - Weather site that uses Foreca data for weather forecast information.
- Corporate.foreca.com - Company website for business customers