Timeline
LEADING WITH ACCURACY: A LEGACY OF INNOVATION
All forecasts are not created equal. The Weather Company has been at the forefront of weather innovation for decades. Many claim it, but only one forecaster can prove it. But don’t take our word for it. These milestones speak for themselves:
The Weather Company
FOUNDED
December 29, 1978
AUTOMATED BRIEFINGS
First to provide aviators with automated route weather briefings
AMERICAN METEOROLOGY SOCIETY AWARD
“Outstanding Services to Meteorology by a Corporation"
WEATHERPRODUCER
WEATHER TARGETING
Launched prototype of SuperRadar built from National Weather Service (NWS) manually digitized radar
SATELLITE IMAGERY
First "real-life"
WORLD’S MOST ACCURATE FORECASTER
ForecastWatch
POLAR ORBITER SATELLITES
First to provide worldwide imagery using POES
Probabilistic forecasts
Agriculture and renewable energy forecasts
AI-Based Learning
Included first AI-based deep learning NWP model in our machine learning model blend, WxMix™
DICAST
Used Dynamic Integrated foreCast System to replace NWS forecasts allowing for seamless global forecasts on properties like weather.comTM
WORLD'S FIRST OPERATIONAL CONVECTIVE MODEL
Allowing numerical weather prediction with an upgrade of RPM to 4km
HUMAN OVER THE LOOP
Launched HOTL:
GLOBAL HIGH-RESOLUTION ATMOSPHERIC FORECASTING SYSTEM™
Introduced the world’s highest-resolution global weather forecasting model