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Speedwell Weather has built what we believe to be the largest private sector data base of high quality world-wide weather data. We are a single-point of contact for the provision of weather data to the energy, agriculture, commodity, insurance and weather risk markets. Unlike many suppliers who distribute only free, publicly available data, we also have direct data supply agreements with a large range of national meteorological services.

We are the dominant provider of weather data for settlement of weather-risk contracts world-wide. We see weather data as a type of financial market data.

Our origins as a weather data provider lie in the weather risk markets. As a result, we understand the importance of data quality. We quality control data from thousands of sites to correct errors and, where necessary and possible, fill missing values.

Over the years we have come across a lot of bad weather data! ...as a matter of policy,for reasons of quality, we do not deliver data derived from GSOD archives (unless specifically requested). If you see a difference between the data we provide and data sourced from other sources we will not be surprised. There is a lot of bad data out there!!!! Please contact us for a detailed explanation of the pitfalls of some commonly used public archives of weather data. These can be different not just in detail but FUNDAMENTALLY. Click here for more information.

SuperPack^® Speedwell SuperPack makes available an unprecedented range of quality historical weather data and weather data feeds for a single annual fee. The SuperPack licence applies corporate-wide across multiple office locations: One contract, one fee, covers all data. SuperPack users have immediate access to a catalogue of many thousands of data sets - and growing. These data sets are shown on this map tool here Use this tool to see percentage completeness statistics, to access data tools such as Actuals-Vs-Climatology and the Weather Statistics Extractor; and to download the data directly from the web site. Subscribers can request an unlimited number of historical data sets and real-time feeds by FTP.

The list of weather sites available for immediate access grows continuously: In addition, SuperPack subscribers can also request any data from our secondary archives of many tens of thousands of weather sites around the world. SuperPack offers a dramatic simplification of the contractual and legal admin involved in data provision. Click here for more details .

SuperPack-Light. SuperPack-Light is for sophisticated weather data users, including those following the agri-markets, who require large volumes of high quality world wide data but who do not need the full-service provided under the full SuperPack subscription. SuperPack-Light is a corporate-wide subscription delivering to up to a maximum of 1,500 user-chosen daily data sets by FTP which can be selected from over 10,000 data sets...all at zero marginal cost. SuperPack-Light subscribers also receive access to additional data download from the website and use of web-delivered tools such as Actuals-Vs-Climatology and the Weather Statistics Extractor.

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Cleaned Data Sets: Weather data is often incomplete and may contain erroneous values. Our Cleaned Data Sets correct erroneous values and fill missing data. We carry in excess of 5,000 cleaned historical data sets of temperature and rainfall and some other variables and we clean over 5,000 sites per day. We also provide cleaned hourly data sets and feeds.

Quality, provenance and auditability: We believe data quality control ("Cleaning") is a very serious business. Our origins as a weather data provider lie in the weather risk markets where we have acted as settlement agent in hundreds of over-the-counter weather risk transactions. This represents the sternest test of data quality and provenance. We see weather data as a type of financial market data.

- Our cleaning techniques build on a very substantial software, hardware and human resource infrastructure which builds on a database storing daily and hourly data for over 90,000 worldwide weather reference sites. Our tools alert us to improbable values by the use of methods including proxy testing, analysis of hourly reports and satellite imagery. However, we believe weather data cleaning can never, and should never, be fully automated. Our data cleaning processes are always manually overseen by meteorologists.

- We also understand the importance of data provenance. At Speedwell we store our data in a strict hierarchy that provides transparency on issues such as source, reporting convention and quality. While clients can request to receive our data as a "best-of" feed, we can also provide data showing these component data types:

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World Hydro Correlation Study 2013: Please contact us for information and prices

Hourly Frequency Reports

We are able to provide hourly frequency reports for any hourly weather variable and for any period. The most frequently requested product is the hourly frequency report covering a specific year and shown by month. This shows how many hours in temperature interval were recorded in each month of that year. Click herefor an annotated example. Hourly Frequency Reports can be provided for any variable for any site for which we carry hourly data. We carry historic hourly data for many thousands of sites in Europe, Australia, Asia and the Americas.

Hourly Average Temperature Data Sets ("Climatologies")

Many clients approach us to buy hourly data which they use to calculate an average value for each hour for each day of the year. This is something we can provide saving the costs of buying and handling large hourly data sets. The output is a file with 24 *366 data points and can be delivered by FTP or by email. This can be provided for any variable for any site for which we carry hourly data. The average can be calculated with or without kernel smoothing. The average can be based on any period with 10 years being the most requested. We carry historic hourly data for many thousands of sites in Europe, Australia, Asia and the Americas. Click here for more information.

Euroepan Wind storms: historic data and real-time feeds. We offer an archive of max gusts, average wind speed and wind direction from 1970. This has an exceptionally high granularity and includes sub-hourly reports. We can provide hourly data updates by FTP to support verification of insurance claims or for the valuation of CAT-bonds throughout the year. Weather variables we can supply are hourly maximum gust, hourly average wind speed, hourly wind direction and hourly surface pressure. Data is based on both Metar and Synoptic reports. Please see here for more information.

Standard Historical Weather Data Packs. We have well over 500 different packs of weather data. These include packs defined by country, by sector (eg China cotton growing areas) or by weather variable (eg hourly Germany data pack for power market analysts). See here to view our data packs on our map tool. All sites are also available individually.

These are just some of our data packs:

Weather Data Packs by Region Click here for a map viewer or our data packs, including inventory statistics .

See later for data packs for Agriculture in the Americas

The Americas
USA: we carry many thousands of sites. Please contact us for other data sets.
USA Primary: 243 sites of cleaned temperature and rainfall history and feeds for "First Order" stations. Click here.
USA Secondary: 250 sites cleaned temperature feeds for "Second Order" stations
USA Tertiary: >360 sites with cleaned temperature feeds.
USA CWG: >230 sites that form the basis of theWeighted Degree Dayforecast.
USA Alaska: 21 sites cleaned monthly in arrears
USA Hawaii: 4 sites cleaned monthly in arrears
USA Hourly: >230 site pack providing hourly temperature, rainfall and other variables. [A starter only..we can provide hourly data for thousands of US sites]
USA Hourly Rainfall History and Feeds: 200+ site pack providing ultra-long hourly rainfall history and feeds. We can provide 1000s more.
USA Texas Hourly Extended: 20 sites of hourly data inc wind speed. Many sites extended to 1950.
USA Texas Temperature Hourly: 9 sites of cleaned hourly temperature. Many sites extended to 1950.
USA Rainfall Cleaned: Over 330 US sites with cleaned rainfall data
USA Snowfall Cleaned: >120 sites of cleaned snowfall data.
USA Snowfall Sites in Colorado: 52 sites
USA Snowfall Sites in Connecticut: 2 sites
USA Snowfall Sites in Delaware: 3 sites
USA Snowfall Sites in Illinois: 71 sites
USA Snowfall Sites in Iowa: 98 sites
USA Snowfall Sites in Kansas: 150 sites
USA Snowfall Sites in Maine: 15 sites
USA Snowfall Sites in Maryland: 2 sites of cleaned snowfall data.
USA Snowfall Sites in Massachusetts: 24 sites
USA Snowfall Sites in Michigan: 50 sites
USA Snowfall Sites in Minnesota: 61 sites
USA Snowfall Sites in Montana: 53 sites
USA Snowfall Sites in Nebraska: 100 sites
USA Snowfall Sites in New Hampshire: 10 sites
USA Snowfall Sites in New Jersey: 16 sites
USA Snowfall Sites in New York State: 52 sites
USA Snowfall Sites in North Dakota: 48 sites
USA Snowfall Sites in Oregon: 75 sites
USA Snowfall Sites in Pennsylvania: 15 sites
USA Snowfall Sites in Rhode Island: 1 site
USA Snowfall Sites in South Dakota: 60 sites
USA Snowfall Sites in Utah: 37 sites
USA Snowfall Sites in Vermont: 13 sites
USA Snowfall Sites in Virginia: 43 sites
USA Snowfall Sites in West Virginia: 30 sites
USA Power Regions: Cleaned daily temperature and rainfall and hourly data for sites in USA Power regions:
AZNM(7),CAMX(14),ECAR(29),ERCOT(15) ,FRCC(9),MAAC(13),MAIN(13),MAPP(22),NEWE(12), NWPP(37)SERC(36),SPP(12)
USA CME temperature contracts: data sets for CDD and HDD weather derivative contracts for 24 sites quoted on the CME
USA CME rainfall contracts: data sets for the 9 cumulative rainfall weather derivative contracts quoted on the CME
USA CME snowfall contracts: data sets for the 6 cumulative snowfall weather derivative contracts quoted on the CME

Puerto Rico Primary (4)

Canada : we carry many thousands of sites. Please contact us for other additional data sets.
Canada: >240 Site Pack
Canada Alberta Primary(23)
Canada British Columbia Primary(20)
Canada Manitoba Primary(7)
Canada New Brunswick Primary(11)
Canada Newfoundland Primary(18)
Canada Nova Scotia Primary(11)
Canada Ontario Primary(11)
Canada Prince Edward Island Primary (3)
Canada Quebec Primary(38)
Canada Saskatchewan Primary(28)
Canada CME Temperature Contracts(6): data sets for the 6 HDD and CAT weather derivative contracts quoted on the CME

South/Central America: Rainfall and temperature history and feeds. Hourly data on request.
See later for data packs for Agriculture in South America
Argentina (49)
Bolivia (5)
Brazil (116)
Belize (1)
Chile (27)
Colombia (2)

Guatemala (5)
Mexico(71)

Paraguay (20)
Peru Primary(14)
Uruguay(15)

Europe
See further below for data packs for Agriculture in Europe

Austria (21)
Belarus (10)
Belgium (18)
Bosnia Herzegovina(2)
Bulgaria(30)
Croatia (37)
Cyprus(3)
Czech Republic (23)
Denmark (11),
Estonia (4),
Finland Primary(7),Secondary(113)
France(73),France Hourly RTE Sites (31)
Germany Primary(83),Secondary(>100),Hourly(68),German Solar Radiation (118)
Greece Primary(7),Secondary(11)
Hungary(12)
Ireland (10)
Israel (5)
Italy Primary(42),Italy Secondary (40)
Latvia Primary (2)

Liechtenstein (1)
Lithuania (7)
Luxembourg(1)
Macedonia (2)
Netherlands (38),Hourly(34), Netherlands hourly Solar Radiation (32)
Norway (52)
Poland (29)
Portugal(13)
Romania(23)
Russia (68)
Serbia(34)
Slovakia(23)
Slovenia (18)
Spain (72)
Sweden Primary(39), Sweden Secondary (28)
Switzerland Primary(18), Switzerland Secondary(25), Swiss Hourly(9), Switzerland Solar Radiation(70)
Turkey (50), Turkey Coastal Wind Sites(11), Turkey Solar Radiation (20)
UK Primary(30), UK Secondary UK Hourly(277), UK hourly Solar Radiation (85), Snow-depth(13),
UK Exelon GSP group sites(relating to UK Power Market), CWV group sites
Ukraine (37)
European CME: data sets for the 11 HDD and CAT weather derivative contracts quoted on the CME
Europe Hourly Solar Radiation:299 sites in Europe with real-time hourly global solar radiation feeds from ground observations

Pacific
Australia: we carry many thousands of sites covering daily, hourly and sub-hourly variables. Please contact us for other data sets.
Australia Primary: 182 sites with cleaned temperature history and feeds.

Australia Secondary >380 sites
Australia Hourly: Hourly temperature and rainfall data for > 150 sites (please contact us for more..we carry 1000s of sites)
Australia Rainfall: >600 sites
Australia CME: data sets for the 3 weather derivative sites quoted on the CME.

Asia
See below for data packs for Agriculture in Asia
Bangladesh(33)
China(>180), China Major Cities(20), China Long Rainfall History(>170)
Hong Kong Primary(19)
India Primary(81)
Iran (6)
Japan Primary Temperature(>700)
Japan CME temperature: data sets for the 3 temperature based weather derivative contracts quoted on the CME
Kazakhstan (63),
Korea (42),Korean Solar Radiation Sites(22)
Malaysia 14 sites of official historical climate data
Philippines(45)
Russia: please see Europe section
Thailand (>100)
Turkmenistan (20)
Uzbekistan (17)
Vietnam(21)

Africa
See below for data packs for Agriculture inAfrica
Algeria(60)
Benin (6)
Burkina Faso (9)
Egypt Primary(25)
Ivory Coast, Cote d'Ivoire(10)
South Africa Primary(30), South Africa Secondary (70)
Togo(3 sites)

Middle East
Saudi Arabia Primary Pack(8)

Weather Data Packs for CME Weather Derivative Futures

Australia CME: data sets for the 3 weather derivative sites quoted on the CME
USA CME temperature: data sets for the 24 CDD and HDD weather derivative contracts quoted on the CME
USA CME rainfall: data sets for the 9 cumulative rainfall weather derivative contracts quoted on the CME
USA CME snowfall: data sets for the 6 cumulative snowfall weather derivative contracts quoted on the CME
Japan CME temperature: data sets for the 3 temperature based weather derivative contracts quoted on the CME
European CME: data sets for the 9 HDD and CAT weather derivative contracts quoted on the CME

Agri-Weather: Weather Data Packs for Agriculture

Clickhereto see our selection of data packs covering agri regions:

Argentina Barley (8), Argentina Corn(6), Argentina Sorghum (10), Argentina Soybean (9), Argentina Sunflower (8), Argentina Wheat (12)
Australia Barley East (26), Australia Barley West (13), Australia Canola (11), Australia Canola East (8), Australia Canola West (5),
Australia Cotton (7), Australia Oats (46), Australia Oats East (30), Australia Oats West (8), Australia Potatoes (13), Australia Sorghum (14), Australia Sugarcane (9), Australia Winter Wheat East (29), Australia Winter Wheat West (12)
Austria Corn (11), Austria Sugar Beet (6), Austria Winter Wheat (10)
Brazil Cocoa (3), Brazil Coffee (9), Brazil Corn (14), Brazil Corn First Crop Central (9), Brazil Corn First Crop South (7), Brazil Corn Second Crop (12), Brazil Cotton (9), Brazil Oranges (6), Brazil Rice (10), Brazil Sorghum (12), Brazil Soybean North (8), Brazil Soybean South (8), Brazil Sugar Cane Matto Grosso (1), Brazil Sugar
Cane North East (2), Brazil Sugar Cane Sao Paulo (5), Brazil Winter Wheat (10)
Belarus Potatoes (9), Belarus Sugar Beet (6)
Bulgaria Corn (9), Bulgaria Sunflower (14), Bulgaria Winter Wheat (13)
Canada Barley (7), Canada Canola (7), Canada Corn (9), Canada Oats (10), Canada Wheat Durum (9), Canada Wheat Spring (13)
Chile Grapes
China Barley (7), China Corn Central (11), China Corn North (7), China Corn South (13), China Cotton East (12), China Cotton West (11), China Rapeseed (9), China Rice North (14), China Rice Double Crop (27), China Rice Single Crop (21), China Soybean (11), China Sugar Beet (16), China Sugarcane (10), China Sunflower Central (13), China Sunflower East (13), China Sunflower West (9), China Tobacco (11), China Wheat (26), China Spring Wheat (12), China Winter Wheat (13)
Colombia Coffee(1)

France Barley(20), France Corn (16), France Rapeseed (12), France Sugar Beet (14), France Sunflower (13), France Winter Wheat(20)

Germany Barley(11), Germany Corn (24), Germany Sugar Beet(13), Germany Rapeseed (13), Germany Winter Wheat (14)

Hungary Corn (8), Hungary Sunflower (6), Hungary Winter Wheat (8)

India Coffee (8), India Corn (24), India Cotton (11), India Rapeseed (11), India Rice (28), India Rice Kharafi Crop (19), India Rice Rabi Crop (10), India Sorghum (12), India Soybean (8), India Sugar (14), India Winter Wheat (14)

Indonesia Coffee (5), Indonesia Rice(13)

Iran Wheat (20) Coming Soon: Iran Barley(14), Iran Rice(14)

Italy Corn (8), Italy Rice (5), Italy Sunflower (7), Italy Wheat (19), Italy Durum Wheat (10), Italy Winter Wheat Soft (9)

Ivory Coast Cocoa (7)

Kazakhstan Spring Wheat(14)

Pakistan Cotton(6), Pakistan Rice (8), Pakistan Sugarcane (9)

Paraguay Soybean (6)

Poland Corn (7), Poland Oats (5), Poland Potatoes (7), Poland Rapeseed (9), Poland Sugar beet (10), Poland Wheat (19)

Romania Corn (11), Romania Sunflower (12), (Romania Winter Wheat (8)

Russia Barley (11), Russia Oats (41), Russia Oats East (10), Russia Oats West (15), Russia Rapeseed (12), Russia Soybean (12) Russia Spring Rapeseed (18), Russia Winter Rapeseed (9), Russia Rye (11), Russia Sugar Beet (13), Russian Wheat (25), Russia Spring Wheat (15), Russia Winter Wheat (10)

Serbia Corn (18), Serbia Soybean (8), Serbia Sugar beet (8), Serbia Sunflower (8), Serbia Wheat (18)

South Africa Corn (16), South Africa Sugarcane (4), South Africa Wheat (6)

Spain Barley (10), Spain Corn (6), Spain Sunflower (11), Spain Wheat (17), Spain Wheat North (10), Spain Wheat South (8)

< Thailand Sugar(9)

Togo(3 sites relevant for Cocoa)

Turkey Cotton (10), Turkey Sugar beet (6), Turkey Sunflower (5), Turkey Wheat (24)

UK Oilseed Rape (44), UK Potatoes (52), UK Barley (61), UK Sugar beet (12), UK Wheat (62), UK Oats (26)

Ukraine Sugar beet (14), Ukraine Barley (10), Ukraine Corn (15), Ukraine Oats (15), Ukraine Rapeseed (13), Ukraine Sorghum (9), Ukraine Spring Wheat (9), Ukraine Sunflower (16), Ukraine Winter Wheat (14)

Uruguay Soybean (5)

US Barley (11), US Citrus (general) (10), US Citrus (California) (4), US Citrus (Florida) (6), US Corn (23), US Corn (Delta) (6), US Corn East (12), US Corn West (14), US Cotton (22), US Cotton Pima (6), US Cotton Uplands Deep South (9), US Cotton Uplands Texas (8), US Durum Wheat (9), US Sorghum (12), US Sorghum South & Central Texas (14), US Sorghum West Texas (11), US Soybean (21), US Spring Wheat (general) (15), US Spring Wheat (Hard Red) (13), US Sugar Beet(13), US Sugarcane (4), US Tobacco (15), US Winter Wheat (general) (27), US Winter Wheat (Hard Red) (18), US Winter Wheat (Midwest Soft Red) (7), US Winter Wheat (Pacific NW Hard White) (3), US Winter Wheat (Pacific NW Soft White) (6)

Vietnam Coffee(9), Vietnam Rice(7)

Weather Data Packs for Energy
Please also see hourly country data packs above or where not separately listed the main country pack.
In most countries where we show limited hourly data, we can provide more on request. Please contact us

Population Weighted Baskets ("Flexes")

We offer a very wide range of population weighted temperature and rainfall products. These are used to model energy demand. For each basket we are able to provide the historical data set, daily feeds and a fully down-scaled ensemble forecast. We also provide smoothed climatologies.

Click here to see the sites which are used for each Population Weighted basket.

The following are available:

Weather Data Packs for Renewable Energy

Wind

USA Iowa Wind Hourly -3 extended data set from 1948

USA Texas Hourly EXTENDED history-20 sites of extended history with many sites providing hourly temperature, wind and rain from 1950

Please contact us for other areas: We provide hourly wind data for many thousands of sites world-wide.

Hydro

Australia Hydro Snowy Mountains : 5 sites in Snowy Mountain hydro catchment area with cleaned history and feeds.
Australia Hydro Tasmania Central: 3 sites in central Tasmania hydro catchment area with cleaned history and feeds.
Australia Hydro Tasmania North: 3 sites in north Tasmania hydro catchment area with cleaned history and feeds.
Brazil Hydro: 19 sites in southern Brazil with cleaned history and feeds.
Europe Hydro Alps: 32 Alpine sites relevant to hydro production with cleaned temperature and rainfall.
Europe Hydro Rhone: 10 sites in Rhone River hydro catchment area with cleaned history and feeds
Europe Hydro Scandinavia: 17 sites relevant to Scandinavian hydro production with cleaned temperature and rainfall.
USA Hydro: Columbia River 14 sites in Columbia River catchment area with cleaned history and feeds.

Solar

Europe Hourly Solar Radiation: Over 300 sites in Europe with real-time hourly global solar radiation feeds from ground observations
Germany Solar Radiation 118 sites in Germany with real-time hourly global solar radiation feeds and histories from ground observations
Korea Solar Radiation (22)
Netherlands Hourly Solar Radiation 32 sites in the Netherlands with real-time hourly global solar radiation feeds from ground observations
Swiss Hourly Solar Radiation 70 sites in Switzerland with real-time hourly global solar radiation feeds from ground observations
UK hourly Solar Radiation Over 80 sites in the UK with real-time hourly global solar radiation feeds from ground observations

Hourly Weather Data

Hourly Weather Data Packs and individual sites: we carry hourly weather data for thousands of sites around the world and can provide real-time feeds. Hourly data can be cleaned on request.

Hourly Temperature Frequency Reports: we can provide reports for any site summarising the number of hours in each temperature bucket by month / year. Click here for an example. Please also contact us for Daily Station Reports, Monthly Summary Data and Rainfall Return Periods data.Click here.

Individual Historical Data Sets and Feeds:

Historical Data: We pride ourselves on being able to satisfy the most testing requests for weather data from our archives of 90,000+ data sets. Data can be delivered by email, FTP or through our web-download tool.

Weather Data Feeds: we can provide data feeds of sub hourly, hourly and daily data for any weather variable.

Recalibrated Data

Recalibrated Data Sets adjust historical temperature series to current observing conditions. Most sites, especially US airport, display numerous discontinuities. Corrections for discontinuities can make a profound impact on the understanding of the behaviour of a site.
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Recalibrated data sets are available for a range of sites in the USA, Europe, Australia and Japan. Any site can be Recalibrated on request.
Recalibrated Australia Sites (7)
Recalibrated Canada Sites (1)
Recalibrated European Sites (10)
Recalibrated US CME Sites (7)

Recalibrated-Light US Sites (243)

Real-Time Monitor: a web delivered tool for spotting discontinuities as they happen in the reporting of temperature due to site moves, instrument changes etc. The relationship of a reference site to a synthetic site derived from a basket of surrounding sites is monitored in real-time with information presented in a configurable graphical format. This service is included as part of the subscription to Recalibrated Data Sets.

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