OpticastTM V5 is DTN APAC’s cloud-based, consensus forecasting solution that delivers precise weather data to your business, both nationally and globally.
Independently verified to significantly outperform other industry models, Opticast gives you a strategic advantage if weather impacts your enterprise. Armed with the most accurate nowcasting and forecasting data, you can mitigate operational and safety risks, and plan to make the most of severe weather windows.
Opticast is powered by machine learning, intelligently adapting to the local conditions of your site area. Gain a world-leading forecasting system that rapidly responds to changing conditions.
We give you the foresight to make quick and powerful decisions when you need to protect your valuable team and assets, and ensure maximum productivity.
Opticast utilises on-site observations to real-time verify, ensuring nowcasting accuracy.
Over 30 meteorological parameters, based on integrated global and regional Numerical Weather Prediction models, are delivered directly to your customisable interface.
Opticast provides you with clear and actionable insight to guide your business through increasingly extreme weather.
Regional and global NWP models integrate and optimise to your local environment.
Reliable 14 day forecasts allow you to plan key work schedules well in advance.
Severe weather and lightning alerts are delivered in real-time to any device, anywhere.
DTN APAC works tirelessly to provide the most accurate and comprehensive weather insights to serve your enterprise’s individual needs.
Whether you require severe weather warnings, rapid-update forecasting, solar actuals and forecasts, blast dispersion modelling, in-depth consultancy, easily deployed weather stations or any other high-precision meteorological service, we can create a reliable, bespoke solution.
The weather is our passion, as are the ways in which we can work with your business to manage the operational effects of the rapidly changing global climate.
Get in touch with us and we can equip you with the solutions you need to optimise your decision-making and mitigate serious weather risk and cost.
A tropical cyclone is likely to form off the north coast of WA in a matter of days, with signs that it could become a severe tropical cyclone next week. A tropical low is currently developing over the Timor Sea to the north of Darwin. The circulation centre of this developing low can be clearly […]
A pulse in a lesser-known tropical wave will bring increased risk of tropical cyclone activity over northern Australia in the coming week. What are tropical waves? Earth’s tropical atmosphere contains a number of large-scale waves that influence cloud and rainfall patterns throughout the year. The most well-known tropical wave is called the Madden-Julian Oscillation (MJO), […]
Multiple flooding events have occurred in Queensland since the start of 2025, but why? Last month was Australia’s hottest and 4th-wettest March on record. Queensland was especially wet, registering its 3rd wettest March on record. This moisture combined with the very warm temperatures around the country to bring the warmest March minimum temperatures on record […]
Thick and extensive cloud over Queensland last week caused solar production to plummet to its lowest level since last winter. A monsoonal burst combined with an active phase of the Madden-Julian Oscillation (MJO) over northern Australia last week, leading to widespread flooding rainfall and extensive cloud cover across Queensland. The image below shows the cloud […]
