MeteoGalEus: An Iberian Multilingual Weather Dataset in Galician, Euskera, and Spanish

Ainhoa Vivel-Couso, Nella Zabrina Pramata, David Robredo, Aitor Soroa, Jose Maria Alonso-Moral


Abstract
This paper introduces MeteoGalEus, a multilingual weather dataset that combines meteorological observations from two Spanish regional agencies, Euskalmet and MeteoGalicia. The dataset contains daily records spanning 4 years and 6 months, with aligned observations for both sources. MeteoGalEus captures key meteorological variables including temperature, wind and state of the sky. The dataset is provided in a structured format, facilitating data analysis and integration, with textual forecasts available in the official languages for each region (i.e., Galician and Spanish for MeteoGalicia; Euskera and Spanish for Euskalmet). By merging and harmonizing data from two regional agencies, MeteoGalEus is a unique resource for cross-regional weather analysis and multilingual climate studies. This dataset is suited for tasks requiring high-quality, aligned, and standardized weather data across multiple languages and regions. We conducted baseline experiments using LLaMA-based models in both zero-shot and fine-tuned settings to illustrate the use of MeteoGalEus for natural language generation (NLG). Fine-tuning led to consistent improvements across all metrics, with BERTScore increasing from 0.68 to 0.79, ROUGE from 0.20 to 0.35, and BLEU from 0.02 to 0.17 in the best-performing model. The experiments show how MeteoGalEus can be taken as a benchmark for multilingual and cross-regional NLG tasks.
Anthology ID:
2026.lrec-1.777
Volume:
Proceedings of the Fifteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference
Month:
May
Year:
2026
Address:
Palma de Mallorca, Spain
Editors:
Stelios Piperidis, Núria Bel, Henk van den Heuvel, Nancy Ide, Simon Krek, Antonio Toral
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LREC
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Publisher:
ELRA Language Resource Association
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Pages:
9905–9919
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External URL:
https://lrec.elra.info/lrec2026-main-777
DOI:
10.63317/29v6u9pgo67x
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Cite (ACL):
Ainhoa Vivel-Couso, Nella Zabrina Pramata, David Robredo, Aitor Soroa, and Jose Maria Alonso-Moral. 2026. MeteoGalEus: An Iberian Multilingual Weather Dataset in Galician, Euskera, and Spanish. In Proceedings of the Fifteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, pages 9905–9919, Palma de Mallorca, Spain. ELRA Language Resource Association.
Cite (Informal):
MeteoGalEus: An Iberian Multilingual Weather Dataset in Galician, Euskera, and Spanish (Vivel-Couso et al., LREC 2026)
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