earth science

Skymet Weather Services

Skymet Weather Services is a earth science topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Skymet Weather Services rather than just read about it. In short: Skymet Weather Services is a private Indian company that provides weather forecasting services. Skymet was the first private sector entity to provide weather forecasts and weather graphics to the Indian media in 2003.

Key takeaways

Skymet Weather Services belongs to earth science; place it in that map before memorising details.
Learn the definition first, then one example that makes the definition concrete.
Connect Skymet Weather Services to a quantity you can measure, compute or draw — that is where exam questions come from.
Reproduce the core statement of Skymet Weather Services from memory before moving on to harder problems.

Reference excerpt

Skymet Weather Services is a private Indian company that provides weather forecasting services. Skymet was the first private sector entity to provide weather forecasts and weather graphics to the Indian media in 2003. Skymet was founded by Jatin Singh in 2003 and is headquartered in Noida, India. Today Skymet provides weather service and graphics to most of Indian media companies in India, such as Zee News, Aaj Tak, Sahara Samay, Mint, Times Now, ABP and The Hindu. Its other clients include Reliance Infrastructure Ltd,Thomson Reuters and North Delhi Power Ltd. Skymet also provides weather service information to most of the major insurance companies in India, power sector and agriculture sector. Skymet provides wind and solar forecast for different renewable energy companies by running its own meso and micro scale NWP. Skymet along with few NGOs are closely working to improve the sustenance of farmer in different remote blocks of many states in India. Skymet also caters to different companies for marine weather forecast. Skymet also recently launched a weather website that allows a common user to get accurate weather information for free. It also launched an android app and App Store (iOS) that gives weather information. Despite availability of many such weather app in Google Play store, Skymet app was seen as the first made in India app that provides weather information in multiple regional languages. When cyclone Phailin hit the Eastern coastal regions of India, Skymet became a referring point for forecast along with international websites like Accuweather. Skymet has developed many software tools for weather and climate decision support systems.

Funding Weather forecasting services provider Skymet Weather Services raised $4.5 million in Series B funding from multiple investors led by Asia Pacific, the investment arm of UK-based media firm Daily Mail and General Trust plc (DMGT) and Godrej group-backed existing investor Omnivore Partners. Skymet has received one round of funding so far from Omnivore Partners through a Rs.250 Cr ($50 Mn) fund, that was launched with Godrej Agrovet, the diversified agribusiness arm of the Godrej group being the anchor investor. Omnivore reportedly picked up a 33 percent stake in Skymet and Mark Kahn, partner of Omnivore Partners joined the board of Skymet Services.

Success Skymet has reportedly predicted Indian monsoons during 2012, 2013 and 2014 before the India Meteorological Department and released their report in a press conference.

Failure Indian Meteorological Department correctly predicted a second below-normal monsoon year in a row whereas Skymet's claims of a normal monsoon for 2015 failed to deliver. Also same thing happened in 2019.

Criticism Skymet was criticized by Director General of IMD, Dr L.S. Rathore for taking on IMD over forecasting monsoons in India in 2013. In an interview given to Business Standard India Dr. Rathore said "Skymet needs to be mature in their prediction.

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Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Skymet Weather Services

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Skymet Weather Services claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In earth science, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Skymet Weather Services before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Skymet Weather Services ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Skymet Weather Services

In research: Skymet Weather Services appears in earth science research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Skymet Weather Services in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Skymet Weather Services is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics Meteorological companies, Technology companies of India, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Skymet Weather Services outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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How to study Skymet Weather Services in 20 minutes

Read the reference excerpt below once, without taking notes.
Close the page and write down what Skymet Weather Services means in your own words.
Compare your version with the excerpt and mark what you missed.
Work through the three examples above with pen and paper.
Explain Skymet Weather Services out loud to somebody else — or to Teacher Smith in the lgStudy chat.

Frequently asked questions

What is Skymet Weather Services in simple terms?

Why does Skymet Weather Services matter?

Because it connects several earth science ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

How should I study Skymet Weather Services?

Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

What does this page cover?

It gives you a compact reference excerpt plus original lgStudy explanations, examples, applications and study material on Skymet Weather Services.