forecasting wind-speed at Findhorn, Scotland, 1-24hrs in advance

Within the ORIGIN project, we are developing software technology that harvests freely available data sources to provide accurate site-specific forecasts of weather variables at hourly intervals, focussing at between one and 24 hours ahead. These are important to help forecast the availability of solar and wind energy on the same timescale (as well as important for many other potential applications). This brief slideset shows our accuracy in predicting wind-speed at Findhorn, Northern Scotland (one of the ORIGIN validation sites), compared with forecasts from forecast.io, which uses MetOffice and other sources.