Avamet

Avamet — formally the Associació Valenciana de Meteorologia Josep Peinado, or Asociación Valenciana de Meteorología Josep Peinado — is a non-profit meteorological association based in the Valencian Community of eastern Spain. Its stated mission is to bring meteorology to every corner of the region, and it does so through a large volunteer-run network of automatic weather stations, a public data platform, educational events and scientific outreach. The association was constituted in 2011 under the name "Asociación Valenciana de Aficionados a la Meteorología Josep Peinado". The name honours Josep Peinado, a Valencian weather enthusiast who died in 2010 and whose wish to establish such an association motivated the founding members to create it. From roughly twenty initial members, Avamet has grown to more than 700 members of all ages, supported by a real-time network of more than 600 stations (the association's own data pages cite over 650 observatories). Avamet's core product is data. Its website, avamet.org, publishes current and historical observations from its station network, searchable by date, municipality, province or the whole Valencian Community, alongside monthly precipitation and temperature maps. The MeteoXarxaOnline (MXO) platform displays live readings such as current, minimum and maximum temperature, rainfall, relative humidity, maximum wind and heat-index values. Avamet also distributes a mobile application for Android and iOS, launched in December 2025, giving members and the public mobile access to the network. Beyond data, Avamet is an active civil-society organisation. It holds an annual General Assembly in different Valencian towns, organises conferences, guided excursions and scientific outreach days, runs meteorological prediction contests such as AVAPRED, and builds climatological databases. It has signed collaboration agreements with public and private bodies including the Instituto Valenciano de Investigaciones Agrarias (IVIA), the University of Alicante, the meteorological information company Inforatge, the lightning-detection firm Météorage, 112 Comunitat Valenciana and Vaersa, À Punt Mèdia, and the Instituto de Ecología Litoral, as well as with municipalities and schools. Avamet's network has become a reference source during extreme weather. On 29 October 2024, a mesoscale convective system produced torrential rainfall across the region; Avamet observatories recorded more than 600 l/m² in places, including 640.8 l/m² at the Canyapar station in Turís and 600.2 l/m² at the Los Felipes station in Chiva. Those readings fed public understanding of the catastrophic flash floods in the province of Valencia. In 2025 the association organised a scientific outreach day in Aldaia on the DANA of 29 October, with experts from AEMET, À Punt and academia, and received the Environment Prize at the XXII Premios Radio Castellón. Avamet remains a private, member-based, non-profit entity rather than a commercial company, but it operates a recognisable public-facing brand and data platform.

Avamet was constituted in 2011 under the name "Asociación Valenciana de Aficionados a la Meteorología Josep Peinado". The association was named in honour of Josep Peinado, a Valencian meteorology enthusiast who died in 2010; his wish to establish such an association is described as the impulse that led the founding members to create Avamet. The organisation is a non-profit association whose main goal is to bring meteorology to all corners of the Valencian Community. From its founding, membership grew steadily. It began with around twenty initial members and has since expanded to more than 700 members of all ages, supported by a real-time network of more than 600 weather stations. The association's own data pages describe historical and current records from more than 650 meteorological stations, searchable by date, municipality, province or the entire Valencian Community. Avamet's activities include meetings and gatherings of members, conferences and outreach days, excursions and trips, the creation of climatological databases, meteorology-themed contests, the installation of weather stations, and collaboration agreements with other associations and public or private entities. Its stated objectives include fostering amateur interest in meteorology, collaborating with authorities on meteorological matters, promoting camaraderie among enthusiasts, stimulating meteorological research, representing its members before other entities, providing services related to the hobby, and collaborating altruistically on meteorology-related projects. Collaboration agreements have been established with the Instituto Valenciano de Investigaciones Agrarias (IVIA), the University of Alicante, the meteorological information company Inforatge, the lightning-detection company Météorage, 112 Comunitat Valenciana and Vaersa, À Punt Mèdia, the Instituto de Ecología Litoral, and municipalities, institutes and other smaller meteorology-related companies. Avamet's network has recorded significant extreme-weather events. On 29 October 2024, a mesoscale convective system caused torrential rains that accumulated more than 600 l/m² at some Avamet observatories, led by Turís with 640.8 l/m² at the Canyapar observatory and Chiva with 600.2 l/m² at the Los Felipes observatory. This produced the overflow of several rivers and ravines on the Mediterranean slope and a series of flash floods that were especially catastrophic in the province of Valencia. In 2025 the association continued its public activities: it held its XIII General Assembly in Bolulla (Marina Baixa) on 25 January 2025; organised a scientific outreach day on the DANA of 29 October, held in Aldaia on 10 May 2025 with the Aldaia town council and sponsorship from Meteored, featuring experts such as José Ángel Núñez, Carles Sanchis, Enrique Moltó, Juanjo Villena, Victòria Rosselló and Rafael Armengot; received the Environment Prize at the XXII Premios Radio Castellón on 18 October 2025; held its traditional autumn gathering in Algar de Palància on 8 November 2025; and released a new mobile app for Android and iOS on 25 December 2025. In January 2026 it held its XIV General Assembly in Onda (Plana Baixa), and in April 2026 it announced the return of the AVAPRED meteorological prediction contest.

• 2026

  XIV General Assembly held in Onda on 24 January.

• 2026

  AVAPRED 2026 meteorological prediction contest announced on 17 April.

• 2025

  XIII General Assembly held in Bolulla on 25 January.

• 2025

  Scientific outreach day on the 29-O DANA held in Aldaia on 10 May, with Aldaia town council and Meteored sponsorship.

• 2025

  Avamet receives the Environment Prize at the XXII Premios Radio Castellón on 18 October.

• 2025

  Autumn gathering held in Algar de Palància on 8 November.

• 2025

  New Avamet app for Android and iOS released on 25 December.

• 2024

  On 29 October, Avamet observatories record more than 600 l/m² during the catastrophic DANA, including 640.8 l/m² at Turís (Canyapar) and 600.2 l/m² at Chiva (Los Felipes).

• 2011

  Avamet is constituted as the Asociación Valenciana de Aficionados a la Meteorología Josep Peinado.

• 2010

  Josep Peinado, the Valencian meteorology enthusiast in whose honour the association is named, dies.

A non-profit, member-driven citizen meteorology network and public data platform for the Valencian Community, positioned as a trusted local source of real-time and historical weather observations.

• MeteoXarxaOnline (MXO)

  Live platform showing current, minimum and maximum temperature, rainfall, relative humidity, maximum wind and heat-index readings from the Avamet network.

• Avamet mobile app

  Android and iOS application released in December 2025, available on Google Play Store and Apple App Store.

• Monthly precipitation and temperature maps

  Monthly maps published on the Avamet website summarising precipitation and temperature across the Valencian Community.

• Historical observatory database

  Searchable historical and current records from more than 650 meteorological stations, filterable by date, municipality, province or the whole region.

1. 1AVAMET Associació Valenciana de Meteorologiaavamet.org
2. 2AVAMET Activitatsavamet.org
3. 3Asociación Valenciana de Meteorologíaes.wikipedia.org
4. 4Wikidata Q19799750wikidata.org