Hour-by-hour wind and rain for ground handling
The hours with the strongest wind and rain, for ground handling.
What it does
Every morning at 4:30: the hour-by-hour wind and rain at your airport, the worst hours first, with advice by xMap AI for ground handling (stand changes, loading, de-icing or lightning holds), posted to Slack.
In one sentence: Every day at 04:30, in London, get the 1-day weather forecast, sort them by wind_kmh and keep the top 5, write a report with xMap AI, then send message to a channel in Slack and email the list to you.
Why it is useful
Wind and rain slow loading and change stands. Ground handling plans the day around the worst hours.
Who it is for
Airports, airlines & aviation. Airports, airlines, flight schools, maintenance and aviation services planning routes, partners and passengers’ journeys. Every use case for airports & aviation
Best use cases
- A ground handling company
- An airport operations centre
- A cargo terminal
What each run gives you
- A Slack post
The time it saves
Every day at 04:30. Doing the same work by hand takes about 20 minutes each time; it runs about 30 times a month, so it saves about 10 hours a month (an estimate). It is medium: 7 blocks.
The flow, block by block
- Every morningTrigger · ScheduleStarts the flow on a timetable.
- The airportWhere · Area of interestSets where the flow looks: countries, cities or specific places, or areas you draw on a map.
- Hour by hour at the airportxMap data · Weather forecastThe weather forecast (Open-Meteo, from national weather services) for up to 16 days: temperature, rain, wind and UV.
- Best 5 firstLogic · Sort and limitPuts the items in order, and can keep only the first ones: the 10 best rated, the 20 nearest, the highest fit scores.
- Write the ground ops advicexMap AI · xMap LLMTell the AI what to do in plain words.
- Post it to #ground-opsApp · SlackChannel-based messaging platform
- Email me the resultsAction · EmailSends one email per run with all the items, or one email per item.
Every block can be changed after you use the template: the city, the type of place, the score, where the results go.
Use it now
Answer a few questions, enter your work email, and it runs in your own account, kept running until you pause it. Use this template.
How to set it up
- Build your first flow in ten minutes: From a blank page to a flow that emails you a ranked list every morning.
- Enrich a list once: A CSV of addresses or companies back with phone, website, rating and an AI score.
- Weather forecast: Up to 16 days for each place or city.
- Score, rank and label with xMap LLM: A score and a reason for every result, in your words.
- Location intelligence: Using where things are, and what is around them, to make business decisions.
- Site selection: Choosing where to open a store, branch, clinic or facility.
- Lead scoring: Ranking prospects by how likely they are to buy.
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- Hotels for my airline’s stopover programme: Hub hotels scored for a stopover package, approved.
- Freight forwarders near the airport, for air cargo sales: Forwarders near the airport scored as air cargo customers.
- Hospitals near heliports, for air ambulance partnerships: Hospitals near each heliport, with the medical director.
- Flight schools for my simulator and parts sales: Flight schools with the head of training, for simulators and parts.
- Aircraft maintenance companies in my region: Aircraft maintenance companies in the region, approved as partners.