Talk:Foreca

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Hello. I am Commercial Director at Foreca Oy, so I have a conflict of interest, which is disclosed on my user page. I will not edit the article directly.

The article is outdated and relies on a single reference:

• In 2019 Foreca sold its professional B2B weather services (transportation, energy and industry customers) to Vaisala. The current description of automotive and road-maintenance customers therefore no longer reflects the company. Today Foreca provides weather data for consumer-facing apps and media through its Weather API, and runs its own consumer weather websites and mobile app.
• The lead states, without a source, that Foreca is the largest weather company in the Nordic countries. I suggest removing this.
• The infobox lists the company as a subsidiary. Foreca Oy is a privately owned, independent company.

Below is a proposed replacement text with sources. Please feel free to accept only parts of it, or to reword anything that reads as promotional. For transparency: the 2024 ForecastWatch accuracy report cited below was commissioned and sponsored by Foreca, as stated on page 14 of the report, and the proposed text says so.

Thank you for your time. Tuomas Reivinen (talk) 08:23, 12 October 2026 (UTC)Reply

Proposed infobox values

• type: Private
• founded: 1996 (as Weather Service Finland)
• hq_location_city: Espoo
• hq_location_country: Finland
• key_people: Atso Rönnblad (CEO)
• products: Weather API, media weather services, consumer weather websites and apps
• website: www.foreca.com
  business.foreca.com

Proposed article text

Foreca (Foreca Oy) is a privately owned Finnish weather forecasting company based in Espoo. Founded in 1996 as Weather Service Finland, it provides weather forecasts and data to developers and media companies through its Weather API and media services, and operates consumer weather websites and the Foreca Weather mobile app.

Foreca was founded in 1996 as Weather Service Finland and adopted the name Foreca in January 2001 as it expanded internationally.^[1] The company has supplied weather content to Microsoft services; in 2008 Microsoft named Foreca as the provider of current weather information for MSN Direct.^[2]

In 2019 Foreca sold its professional business-to-business weather services, which served customers in transportation, energy and industry, to Vaisala. Foreca retained its weather services for consumers, media companies and digital channels such as websites, mobile apps and displays.^[3][4]

In August 2026 Foreca launched a self-service online store for its Weather API, allowing businesses and developers to subscribe without contract negotiations.^[5]

Foreca combines the ECMWF global model with other global and regional numerical weather prediction models, AI-based weather models and observations from more than 50 data sources, including weather stations, radars and satellites. Machine learning is used to select and correct model output for each location based on historical performance, and forecasts are adjusted with real-time observations (nowcasting).^[6]

In 2025 the forecast verification company ForecastWatch published an analysis, commissioned by Foreca, of 2024 one-to-five-day forecasts from 15 weather providers at about 2,200 locations worldwide. Foreca ranked third globally in overall accuracy (77.69%), behind Microsoft and The Weather Channel, and had the best probability-of-precipitation forecasts in Europe, measured by Brier score.^[11][12]

In ForecastWatch's inaugural Most Accurate Forecast Awards in 2026, Foreca won the Consumer Weather category for 8–14-day forecasts in North America and in Asia Pacific.^[13]

• Official website
• Foreca for business

Tuomas Reivinen (talk) 08:23, 12 October 2026 (UTC)Reply