In 2006, Meteoblue was then founded as a spin-off company in order to serve customers especially in the area of agriculture as well as solar and wind power.
During the fire, health and safety services tried to get information pertaining to the wind direction in order to protect the population from poisonous and noxious gases.
After receiving conflicting information from Swiss, French and German meteorological services – Basel is located at the tripoint of these three countries – researchers at the local university formed the "Institute for Meteorology, Climatology and Remote Sensing"[3] intending to model the local weather situation more precisely.
[4] Beside that, it predicts weather for several continents on scales not familiar from other weather services, e.g. Europe using a 3 km (1.86 mi) grid, encompassing an area containing Belarus, Greece, Portugal and Ireland, or sub-Saharan Africa using a 10 km grid.
[citation needed] In 2020, Asobo partnered with Meteoblue to generate and deliver accurate weather conditions to the users of Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020.