Munich, 14 November 2026
Dear all,
Thank you for your patience. After we took our website offline about three weeks ago as a precautionary measure for security reasons – yes, we too still had some old PHP code lying around – we’re now back with a completely new look.
“Back to basics”, as they say. We’ve had a proper clear-out and redesigned everything – absolutely everything – from scratch, starting with a blank sheet of paper. The systems are now lean and fast, modern, and the overhead of recent years has been eliminated. We’ve simply left out
everything that we considered to be unnecessary frills. The biggest challenge was getting all the models up and running again and incorporating our own modifications to the model outputs. We reckon the results are impressive.
Our own local and regional models are called MSM-EU and MSS-WAVEWATCH, whilst MSM-DE is reserved for our customers. In addition, we use the DWD’s ICON models, as well as the GGS models with their global forecasts.
We have replaced the old GRADS weather chart system, which served us well for years and, in some respects, still does, with our own system. It is based on Python with its countless excellent libraries. We have
also installed a new monitoring system, which enables us to react more quickly should critical situations arise. Artificial intelligence (AI) has also made its way into our system. A number of tests and plausibility checks are still running in the background. “We’re far from finished!”
That’s all for now; over the coming weeks, we’ll be adding a few more features. At the moment, we don’t have a high Google ranking either. These are all secondary matters that are being dealt with now. Meteorology and climate impact analysis are clearly our main focus. We hope that, with these pages, we can make a small contribution to prevention and climate protection.
Thank you once again for your patience; the servers are now back ONLINE.
Best regards
on behalf of the entire MeteoServices team
Dipl. Met. Frank Bandle
Managing Partner, MeteoServices,
a subsidiary of s.t.o.r.k. Media GmbH – Munich