Severe Weather

The majority of natural disasters are related to severe weather phenomena, such as thunderstorms, hurricanes, hailstorms, tornadoes, heavy precipitation, flooding and damaging winds, often leading to human casualties and material damages.

Vaisala provides advanced sensor technology, comprehensive observation systems and turnkey solutions for monitoring, detecting and forecasting hazardous meteorological and hydro-meteorological events for providing an early warning, essential for timely emergency response and rescue operations.
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    • Automatic Weather Stations 
      • ​Vaisala weather stations gather high-quality, real-time data that is used in a variety of weather observation activities ranging from forecasting to road traffic management.
    • Thunderstorm / Lightning Detection Systems 
      • ​Vaisala's lightning detection and location systems are designed to confidently detect, locate, analyze, display, archive and re-distribute cloud and cloud-to-ground lightning strikes, in real time and off-line.
    • Weather Radars 
      • ​With its new innovative design solutions Vaisala has become a leading supplier of C-band weather radars.
    • Lightning Sensors 
      • ​Vaisala lightning sensors provide critical local lightning information, both for meteorological applications as well as threat data, to facilitate advanced warnings, initiate safety procedures, and isolate equipment when needed.
    • Vaisala Dropsonde RD94 
      • The Vaisala Dropsonde RD94 is a general-purpose dropsonde for high-altitude deployment from a variety of aircraft. Slowed in its descent through the atmosphere by a special parachute, the RD94 measures the atmospheric profiles of pressure, temperature, relative humidity and wind from the point of launch to the surface.