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Our Best Places to Live reports are unique in that they use a combination of forecast accuracy from various weather providers and an assumption that the current weather will continue over the next several days to determine where the weather is most and least predictable in the short term. This information can benefit your business...

The international annual review of the world’s climate is based on contributions from nearly 600 scientists in 60 countries, led by scientists from NOAA’s NCEI and published by the Bulletin of the AMS. They recently released their 34th annual State of Climate report for 2023, and it reveals many broken records. The most notable findings...

Scientists have been observing the Pacific Ocean change from El Niño’s warmer-than-average conditions a few months ago to cooler-than-average La Niña conditions by late summer or early fall. However, something similar may be taking shape in the Atlantic Ocean this summer. The North Atlantic has been extremely warm so far this year, but as of...

WindBorne Systems is the world’s largest atmospheric sensing system, and is also the owner of the most accurate medium-range global forecast model in the world – WeatherMesh. With a new round of funding raising $15 million, WindBorne looks to scale its weather sensing balloons and AI modeling to mitigate the most imminently dangerous effects of...

NOAA recently announced that it will purchase another aircraft to help support its forecasts, research, and missions. The G550 fully modified aircraft will join the Hurricane Hunters, and fly right above hurricanes and tropical storms, collecting highly detailed information about the storms. The information is then used to refine forecasts looking at the track and...

Weather app usage has skyrocketed over the past 10-15 years, with roughly 90% of smartphone users having a weather app on their phone. Ensuring that consumers value and trust weather apps is very important to the integrity of weather forecasting. But with apps being interpreted solely by the app user, misunderstanding and consequent false expectations...

The National Weather Service (NWS) shared a year’s worth of forecast accuracy data with The Washington Post, who then analyzed the data. This is the first time the government has shared this data publicly, so let’s see how they did. When looking at the National Weather Service’s daily high temperature forecasts, a forecast was deemed...

At the end of May, the White House announced that it will be investing $36.6 million in programs aimed at improving weather forecasting and tsunami warning systems. Not only will these efforts benefit the United States, but it will also benefit Canada and other countries around the world. $6.6 million of the funding will go...

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) National Weather Service (NWS) recently announced a new 2 year research partnership with GrandSky Airfield Operations in North Dakota. The partnership will use drones and other UAV assets to aid in weather forecasting. NOAA says the key to improving the skill of NWS forecasts and warnings is to...

Until about five years ago, Tornado Alley consisted of a bull’s eye of tornado activity in parts of Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, and Nebraska. But in years since, that hot spot of tornado activity has shifted east, into parts of the Deep South and the Tennessee Valley. This eastward shift was noticed very early on by...