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Weather solutions to support transportation and logistics

Drive efficient logistics operations with top-tier forecasting and weather intelligence

With severe weather conditions increasing in intensity, now is the time to utilise customised transport industry solutions.

DTN APAC, specialises in building tailored weather monitoring and alerting solutions. These provide heightened visibility, guiding you to plan and respond effectively when adverse weather threatens transport operations. Our weather insights, including flood and fire proximity alerts, warn you of potential and real-time hazardous weather affecting water, rail and road conditions.

Your control interface delivers centralised services, password protected for your personnel. It’s purpose-built to meet your unique specifications, delivering easy-to-visualise critical intelligence that is scalable. Industry-leading lightning detection, GIS storm tracking, nowcasting, forecasting and severe conditions alerting are the foundation of the weather API. You then have the option to layer additional premium solutions to meet your unique requirements.

Leverage our comprehensive weather data to inform your route planning, minimise delays where possible, and mitigate the disruptive effects of severe weather events.

Advanced weather intelligence solutions to mitigate risk

We can support you to conduct a thorough assessment of your weather and environmental monitoring, and forecasting requirements. This identifies the potential impacts of weather on your network, and where proactive improvements can be made. You can then choose tailored solutions to monitor weather conditions, promoting your operational efficiency, safety and profitability.

You will be supported by the dedicated DTN APAC team, who are driven to make your operational decisions easier.

Mitigate safety risk

Gain situational awareness and alerting to rapidly identify potential safety risk across your network. Initiate your weather safety response knowing the full picture.

Visualise severe weather

Use our Stormtracker maps and alerting to see where adverse weather and conditions threaten your operations and infrastructure, and act before it hits.

Make confident decisions

Rely on our clear, expert insight to make critical decisions confidently, potentially reducing costly and disruptive delays.

Weather intelligence for your enterprise

We offer so much more than a weather forecast

From extreme temperatures and fire to violent storms, high winds to flooding rain, the transport and logistics industry is constantly at the mercy of adverse weather conditions. No matter how the weather affects your business, you can utilise our decision-making support solutions to enhance your situational awareness and optimise your operational management.

Stormtracker is our powerful GIS mapping system. Multiple weather and alert layers animate over your infrastructure and operating regions so you can track the path of storm systems. Full-screen mode serves large control room monitors, and hyperlocal alerting provides real-time communication of weather and environmental threats.

DTN APAC’s Total Lightning Network delivers precise lightning detection and alerting via SMS to your personnel, so they can prepare and respond quickly. The high-resolution sensor data provides unparalleled detection accuracy and efficiency (<200m), capturing storm cells of any size, so you and your team know what’s coming.

The Weatherguard App equips your team with the precise knowledge to inform their operational safety decisions and guard against unnecessary shutdowns. This dedicated business app delivers lightning and weather warning notifications to your staff, based on their GPS position and your customised thresholds.

We work with you, delivering precise weather insights to help you stay on track, and keep your people and customers safe.

Improve forecast accuracy with our advanced weather solutions.

Latest news

Satisfy your weather obsession with these news headlines from around the nation, and the world.

Signs of a positive Indian Ocean Dipole, but it may not follow the textbook

Waters off Indonesia have cooled in recent weeks, an indication that a positive Indian Ocean Dipole (IOD) event could be developing. It’s an important climate driver for Australia, and it could shape rainfall and temperatures heading into summer, with flow-on effects for farmers, energy and other industries.  What is the Indian Ocean Dipole?  The IOD […]

1.3 million lightning strikes and a record September downpour: the storms testing WA’s Goldfields

Leonora, WA, had its wettest September day on record earlier this month. Three weeks later, more than 1.3 million lightning pulses were detected within 800 km of the town in 48 hours. Why is a stalled trough delivering storms to mining country, and what it could mean for operations?  The DTN Total Lightning Network detected […]

A very low wind power week, likely to continue

A stubborn blocking high over southern Australia will make for a very quiet week for wind generation and the pattern behind it isn’t a one-off.   It’s the seasonal signature of a super (very strong) El Niño combined with a positive Southern Annular Mode (SAM), and both the historical record and the current seasonal forecast suggest it’s likely to keep recurring through spring before a potential switch from November.  The setup right […]

Fastest strengthening El Niño on record: Impacts on Australian monsoon timing and wet season planning

Australia’s Mining and Resources sectors are bracing for a wet season shaped by one of the most rapidly developing El Niño events on record.    Looking back at how the strongest El Niño events in Australian history have played out, it becomes apparent that mining operations in Australia should be planning for a later monsoon […]