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