SWITZERLAND: MeteoSwiss public-private partnership with MeteoGroup

Compendium of Good National Practices for Public-Private Engagement

Switzerland’s National Weather Service MeteoSwiss has a long history of using partner data within their own operations. Collaborations with public partners started in early 2000. In those early days, MeteoSwiss did see private weather companies as competitors and conflicts about where and how to measure or about the accuracy of forecasts transpired through the media. The situation changed in 2011 when MeteoSwiss decided to start a cooperation with the private weather company MeteoGroup, the largest operator of a network of private weather stations in Switzerland.