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Wx Horizon for cities & municipalities

Smarter winter maintenance with full awareness of current and future weather conditions for your community

Confident winter operations for communities

Wx Horizon uses advanced forecasting models and local sensor data from your roads to provide precise insights into current and upcoming weather conditions, empowering you to make well-informed and confident decisions for every weather event.

How winter maintenance professionals benefit from Wx Horizon?

Deliver targeted treatments with confidence

Ensure you treat when and where needed by capturing the nuances that other, more generic forecasts miss. Get 72-hour forecasts for specific locations, routes, and entire regions, driven by the latest readings from fixed and mobile data sources across your network.

Increased assurance and network awareness

Gain full network-wide awareness of current road conditions and an understanding of driver experiences out on your network. Monitor the current road conditions from road sensors and vehicle data from across your network.

Always informed, instantly alerted

Access real-time weather insights across your entire network, updated every 10 minutes from stations and sensors, with comprehensive network-wide updates every 30 minutes. Wx Horizon continuously monitors all incoming data, notifying you instantly when conditions become hazardous anywhere on your network. 

Features for efficient winter maintenance planning

Alert notifications

Create and receive alerts for your road network to keep you and your team informed at all times. 

10-day atmospheric weather forecasts

The forecast includes information on weather conditions, wind speed and direction, air temperature and precipitation. 

Status layers for critical parameters

View data layers showing surface condition, surface temperature, grip, and air temperature.

72-hour road weather network forecast

Determine where and when weather conditions will affect your roads up to 72 hours in advance. Identify affected areas and target treatments selectively. 

Live grip data from connected cars

Access data from vehicle sensors on your roads to assess the effectiveness of your winter maintenance operations and identify sections that require further treatment.

Radar, wind speed, satellite and more

Use radar, satellite, wind speed and “feels like” temperature data to get more comprehensive information.

Client stories

Cranberry Township, PA

”We have found the Wx Horizon data to be invaluable in winter maintenance and after one season has shown significant cost savings in both overtime labor and materials."

City of Oak Creek, WI

"If this was a storm on the old weather system, we would have wasted around 80 tons of salt on a mainly rain event."

City of Independence, MO

"Instead of bringing in people at midnight or before... we said, hey, let's do it—built our forecast and operations around Wx Horizon forecast, and we were able to save almost $10,000 in material and staff time in that one 12 hour shift..."

Unmatched forecasting accuracy with Xcast

Imagine receiving observations and forecasts for key areas across your road network—easily and affordably. Look no further. Xcast is a synthesis of high-precision measurements from the sensors and weather station across your network and sophisticated forecasting models.  

The sensors provide high-quality observations and up to 72-hour forecasts across your road network. Now, you can make data-driven winter maintenance decisions with true confidence and maximum situational awareness.

See it in action

Book a one-to-one guided demo to see how Wx Horizon helps cities and municipalities.

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