ForecastWatch

ForecastWatch, a service of Intellovations, LLC, has been the world’s premier weather forecast monitoring and analytics company since 2003. Our passion for data drives us every day. We collect weather forecast data from several thousand locations throughout the U.S. and around the world. This information is added to an ever-growing and unparalleled historical database of more than one billion weather forecasts gathered from dozens of weather forecast providers and systems. We use this vast collection of data to evaluate and compare weather forecast providers, improve decision-making by governments and business entities affected by weather, improve weather forecasting by meteorologists around the world, and educate customers with unbiased reporting. We strive to improve and expand our offerings to meet the needs of our current and future clients, finding ways to partner with them to help them evaluate their own deliverables, keep their customers safe, or help make business-critical decisions by analyzing weather forecasts to positively affect revenue, operating costs, and risk mitigation costs. Meteorologists, utilities, and energy companies depend on ForecastWatch’s accurate data and analysis. Agriculture, futures traders, and other companies whose business depends on being right about the weather put their trust in us to help them achieve success. Even consumers benefit from our ForecastAdvisor product. Our data meets the highest standard of scientific inquiry and has been used in several peer-reviewed studies. Learn more about our products and services at forecastwatch.com

Our suite of products evaluate and compare weather forecast providers, improve decision-making by governments and business entities impacted by weather, improve weather forecasting by meteorologists around the world, and educate customers with unbiased reporting. To learn more about our services, visit forecastwatch.com. #Weather #Wx #DataAnalysis #WeatherRisk

DID YOU KNOW? Lightning is hotter than the surface of the sun! #Weather #Wx #DYK #DidYouKnow #FunFact #ThursdayThoughts

We have just released a new report: Best Places to Live or Work In the United States If You Need to Know What the Weather Will Be Like Tomorrow 2024! We analyzed 832 locations to find out where the most accurate weather forecasts are. The most accurate combination of forecasts and persistence was in Hawaii and Puerto Rico, with an average accuracy percentage of over 75%. The least accurate combination of forecasts and persistence existed across the Upper Midwest, specifically northern Minnesota and the immediately adjacent parts of extreme eastern North Dakota, as well as north central and northeast Alaska. The average accuracy was less than 55% in these areas. Find out why these locations are more/less accurate, and the change in overall accuracy year over year, in our blog: https://lnkd.in/gv2F-8yW #Weather #Wx #Report #WeatherForecast #ForecastAccuracy #WeatherRisk

Weather word of the week: landspout. A landspout is a tornado with a narrow, rope-like condensation funnel that forms while the thunderstorm cloud is still growing and there is no rotating updraft - the spinning motion originates near the ground. It is similar to a waterspout, but over land. Damage from landspouts tends to be EF2 or less. A few landspouts were confirmed in Indiana last week! -NWS #Weather #Wx #Landspout #DYK

Cities are often measurably warmer than their surrounding rural areas, which is known as the urban heat island effect. However, fewer people are aware that the urban heat island effect has a twin counterpart - the urban precipitation anomaly. The presence of urban development measurably affects the amount of rainfall in an area. Out of 1,056 cities studied across the globe, more than 60% of those cities received more precipitation than their rural counterparts. The increased precipitation coupled with impervious surfaces that make up urban environments can be a recipe for flash flooding. Learn more in our ClimateWatch newsletter: https://lnkd.in/gnZnnicz #Weather #Wx #Climate #ClimateChange

Weather word of the week: lilapsophobia. Lilapsophobia is the abnormal fear of tornadoes or hurricanes. It is considered the more severe type of astraphobia, which is the fear of thunder and lightning. #Weather #Wx #Fear

JUST RELEASED: Best Places to Live in the United States if You Need to Know What the Weather Will Be Like Tomorrow 2024! If dependability in weather forecasts is essential to your business, or your activities rely on weather forecasts, this report is for you! Our Best Places 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 locations where the weather is most and least predictable in the short term. This information can benefit your business if you need to know where the weather is most predictable, help you conduct outdoor activities if you see you live in a place with more unpredictable weather, or even help you plan your next vacation! Our U.S. report analyzes 832 locations and ranks them from most to least predictable. Updated reports for Europe and the world will be released later this fall. Visit https://lnkd.in/gBT--rj5 to request a copy of our latest report! #Report #JustReleased #Weather #Wx #WeatherForecast #ForecastAccuracy #ForecastAnalysis #Data #Analysis

Our founder and CEO, Eric, recently attended the Vintage Computer Festival Midwest. They had a demonstration of weather forecast cable head-end boxes, which were used back in the day to get local weather on your cable station! Check these out! #Weather #Wx #WxHistory #History

Global food prices have seen huge fluctuations in recent years, with extreme weather events, geopolitical conflict, high input costs, and increased demands contributing to the spike. A recent study suggests that levels of extra warming projected to hit Europe by 2035 could amplify food inflation by 30-50%. The United States has seen a steady increase in orange juice prices in recent years due to diseases and extreme weather causing a decline in production. The U.S. saw a 40% drop in orange production over the last 4 years. Learn more about the impacts of climate change on food prices around the world in our ClimateWatch newsletter: https://lnkd.in/gqbUgzdx. #Climate #ClimateChange #Inflation