Foreca

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Foreca Ltd

Native name	Foreca Oy
Type	Subsidiary
Genre	Weather forecasting
Founded	1996; 26 years ago (1996)
Headquarters	Espoo , Finland
Website	www.foreca.com

Foreca Ltd is a private Finnish weather forecasting company. It is the largest of its kind in the Nordic countries and is headquartered in Espoo, Finland. Foreca provides weather services for international business use. This service is partly based on data and products of the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts.

Foreca was first established in 1996 under the name Weather Service Finland. In January 2001, it changed its name to Foreca as part of its efforts to expand the company internationally.^[1]

Foreca provides weather and road weather services to the automotive, digital media, and winter road maintenance industries. Since 2004, the company has had a contract with Microsoft to produce content for its international MSN websites and Microsoft Windows. Foreca provides weather services for drivers that are customers of companies such as Daimler, BMW, and TomTom.

The company offers a free weather forecast smartphone application called ForecaWeather Free. It provides current conditions, 10-day weather forecasts, and weather animations for any location in the world. The application is available for Android, iOS, and Windows 10 devices.

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• Finnish Meteorological Institute

External links[]

• Foreca.fi Official website in Finnish
• Foreca.com Official website in English
• Foreca.mobi Mobile website
• ecmwf.int - European Centre for Medium-range Weather Forecasts
• MSN Weather - Weather site that uses Foreca data for weather forecast information.
• Corporate.foreca.com - Company website for business customers