Monitor, predict and manage road conditions in real time with the Winter Road Maintenance Dashboard

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Why Road Weather Matters

Weather directly impacts road safety, operational costs, and service reliability.

  • Slippery roads increase accident risk and liability

    Hazardous road conditions such as ice and snow significantly raise the likelihood of accidents and associated liability risks.

  • Inefficient salting leads to unnecessary costs

    Over- or under-application of salt due to lack of precise data results in avoidable operational expenses and resource waste.

  • Delayed response impacts traffic flow and public safety

    Late reaction to changing weather conditions can disrupt traffic and increase safety risks for road users.

  • Weather variability makes planning difficult without precise data

    Rapidly changing weather patterns make it challenging to plan maintenance activities without accurate and timely forecasts.

Complete Decision Support for Road Weather Operations

Monitor weather conditions, assess road network status, coordinate operational teams, and manage critical resources through a single, integrated decision-support platform.

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    Interactive Road Weather Map

    Monitor your entire road network from a single interactive map. Combine weather forecasts, live observations, and road conditions to gain a complete operational overview and make faster, more informed decisions.

    • Interactive weather and road condition map

    • Road state monitoring, including dry, wet, damp, frozen, icy, snow-covered, etc.

    • Current and forecast weather conditions for every monitored route

    • Weather layers including temperature, precipitation, wind, radar, clouds, and more

    • Detailed road-specific weather information

    • Multiple map overlays for operational planning

    • Easy navigation across your road network

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    Expert Meteorological Forecasts

    Receive operational weather intelligence prepared and reviewed by OpenWeather's professional meteorologists. From executive summaries to highly detailed technical reports, every forecast is designed to support confident operational decisions.

    • Daily operational weather reports

    • Short-term and medium-range forecasts

    • Road Surface Temperature forecasts

    • Weather hazard assessments

    • Meteorologist confidence levels

    • High-level summaries or detailed technical reports

    • Reports customised to match your organisational structure

    • Direct access to OpenWeather meteorologists for expert consultation

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    Rainfall & Flood Intelligence

    Plan winter maintenance more effectively by understanding how rainfall and flooding may impact your operations. Optimise treatment timing and monitor flood risks from a single platform.

    • High-resolution rainfall forecasts to predict the effectiveness of salt treatments after rainfall

    • Hourly rainfall forecasts for operational planning

    • Flood and river level warning monitoring

    • Early warning of potential flooding events

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    Operational Awareness - Live Network Intelligence

    Gain complete situational awareness by combining live visual observations with real-time weather and road data from across your network. Integrate road cameras, RWIS stations, weather sensors, and OpenWeather hardware into a single operational view to validate forecasts, monitor current conditions, and respond to changing weather with confidence.

    • Live road camera feeds for visual verification of road conditions

    • Integration with your existing RWIS stations and weather sensors

    • Support for OpenWeather weather stations and road monitoring hardware

    • Real-time road surface and atmospheric observations

    • Monitor road temperature, air temperature, humidity, wind, precipitation, visibility, and other sensor measurements

    • Road-specific weather and sensor data displayed directly on the interactive map

    • Centralised monitoring of all connected assets from a single dashboard

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    Winter Operations Management

    Coordinate every aspect of your winter maintenance programme from one central platform. Plan treatments, manage operational teams, record decisions, and maintain complete visibility across your organisation.

    • Create and manage winter maintenance plans

    • Assign routes, drivers, and operational tasks

    • Coordinate duty managers and operational teams

    • Operational journals with complete activity history

    • Internal communication and messaging tools

    • Complete audit trail of operational decisions

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    Salt & Asset Management

    Track critical winter maintenance resources in real time and optimise inventory across multiple depots. Reduce manual administration while maintaining complete visibility of stock usage and resource availability.

    • Real-time salt stock monitoring

    • Multi-depot inventory management

    • Automatic salt deduction based on completed treatments

    • Complete inventory transaction log

    • Depot utilisation tracking and usage reporting

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Case Study

Proven Success in the Field

See how Cumberland Council uses the OpenWeather Road Weather Dashboard to improve operational planning, streamline winter maintenance, and make more confident weather-related decisions.

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    OpenWeather provides Cumberland Council with a Winter Road Maintenance Dashboard and expert meteorological consultancy, enabling a shift from broad assumptions to targeted, route-level decisions. Duty teams can assess network conditions and drill into specific links, prioritising higher-risk areas, known cold spots and exposed sections.Targeted decision-making reduces avoidable call-outs and lowers seasonal salt usage while maintaining safety. Efficiency is strengthened through consistent workflows that record shift activity: selected routes, key temperature and ice indicators (including sub-zero periods and minimum temperatures), treatment timing, spreading method and salt type. This reduces manual administration, removes fragmented notes and standardises reporting.

    Treatment records can be automatically generated as clear PDF reports, supporting handovers, audits and post-event reviews without additional workload. Because actions are logged by route and salt type, depot stock levels update automatically.To reduce uncertainty from sparse observation networks, OpenWeather is running proof-of-concepts to expand capture of on-premise and near-road conditions. These focus on temperature and surface heat dynamics, wind behaviour, precipitation, air quality and related climate signals.

    Read full case study here.

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