Skymet Weather

Skymet Weather is one of India's best-known private weather companies, providing forecasting and weather intelligence with a strong agricultural focus. It produces hyperlocal forecasts, monsoon outlooks and real-time weather data, and applies that intelligence to farm decision-making and to agricultural insurance — where accurate, granular weather data underpins crop-insurance products and claims. By combining meteorological modeling with field-level data, Skymet helps farmers time irrigation, sowing, spraying and harvest around expected conditions, and helps insurers and agribusinesses quantify weather risk. The company is a major presence in Indian agritech, though it has less global press footprint. For farmers, co-operatives and insurers operating in its coverage area, Skymet's value is turning weather — the single biggest uncontrolled variable in farming — into specific, actionable guidance and into the risk data that insurance products depend on.

Agricultural weather forecasting and insurance risk data