Weather Forecast Services

Elevate your operations with embedded meteorologist services that deliver dedicated HOTL expertise, onsite. These experts work directly within your operations center, providing real-time consultation during impactful weather events and daily planning.

What’s included

• Tailored forecasts built to meet the needs of your operation
• Proactive alerts issued before conditions threaten safety or efficiency
• Strategic guidance for both immediate tactical decisions and long-term planning
• Direct communication channels to eliminate delays during critical moments

Maintain a consistent pulse on weather impacts with expert briefings delivered on a regular cadence. This model transforms weather from an unpredictable variable into a manageable part of your annual and daily planning.

What’s included

Daily Weather Outlook: Receive a text-based, comprehensive weather synopsis, tabular data, and site-specific maps. Forecast variables critical to your operations include:

• Temperature
• Wind speed
• Precipitation (rain, ice, and snow)
• Fire activity (wildfire risk)
• Severe weather
• Tropical activity

Weekly Preparatory Briefing: Get ahead of the week with a text-based, strategic outlook delivered every Monday. We provide a deep dive into the weather patterns affecting your specific territory and key sites, including:

• 7-day outlook for long-range planning
• Custom imagery and site-specific maps
• Tabular data for precise operational thresholds

Supplemental Weather Outlook Alerts: Tailor your intelligence with custom-defined, key alert thresholds. Our meteorologists monitor your specific criteria and alert you the moment conditions evolve, including:

• Temperature extremes: Precise, seven-day outlooks for heat and cold, tracking the threat until conditions return to safe operational levels.
• Severe weather: Targeted risk assessments for high-impact threats, including tornadoes, hail, damaging winds, and lightning.
• Fire weather risk: Real-time monitoring of conditions conducive to wildfire ignition and spread, including duration and intensity forecasts.
• Tropical intelligence: Updated tracks and development zones for tropical systems, filtered for impact on your assets and territories.
• Critical wind thresholds: Alerts for sustained winds and gusts that exceed your safety criteria, including projected duration.
• Precision precipitation: Detailed modeling of rain, snow, and ice, including hourly accumulation rates, depths, and flash flooding risks.

Four-Week Strategic Summary: Support extended operational planning with a long-range intelligence report. This summary provides a critical bridge between past and future conditions. It combines a text-based review of the previous week with a seasonal weather outlook for weeks two through four.

Add-ons

Aviation Operational Support: Navigate complex regulations and airspace with a robust suite of services tailored for global carriers and local flight departments. We provide expert guidance that meets FAA EWINS guidelines, including:

• Terminal & Enroute analysis for domestic and international routes
• Irregular Operations (IROPS) support to minimize disruption
• Regulatory compliance with FAA-recognized weather intelligence

Marine Operational Support: Secure your maritime assets with critical intelligence on the variables that impact safety and efficiency at sea. We provide real-time monitoring of shifting oceanic conditions, including:

• Sea state analysis such as sea level pressure and direction
• Tropical activity tracking for route optimization and port safety
• High-wind alerts for coastal and deep-sea operations

Access expert support for unscheduled, high-impact situations. When a specific weather threat approaches, you gain an on-call partner to help you interpret complex conditions and make the right decision for your people and assets.

What’s included

Severe Weather Briefings: Activate expert support within two hours of notice. Our meteorologists provide customized briefings over email, phone, or web conference to walk your team through high-impact events and business risks.

Winter Weather Consultation: Gain early insights into disruptive storms. We provide clarity on snow and ice intensities, precise event timing, wind speeds, and our proprietary confidence levels to guide your response.

Tropical Threat Analysis: Navigate active systems with detailed intelligence on development zones and forecast tracks. We provide site-specific start/stop times for wind thresholds, surge risks, and rainfall totals to protect your coastal and inland assets.

Verification of Severe Weather Events: Receive a comprehensive impact briefing within one week of a major weather event. We provide a verified account of conditions across your territory by synthesizing government data with proprietary Weather Company observations, including:

• Winter Weather Verification: A certified review of observed snow and ice accumulations, peak wind gusts, and event duration to validate operational impacts.
• Tropical Impact Analysis: The finalized track of tropical systems, including peak wind gusts, duration of storm-force winds, and total rainfall depths.

Scenario Planning: Prepare your team for the unexpected with expert-led simulations. Our meteorologists take an active role in business continuity drills, generating realistic weather scenarios to test your response protocols before a crisis occurs, including:

• Customized Threat Simulations: Tailored “what-if” scenarios — from hurricane landfalls to flash freeze events — mapped directly to your specific assets and territories.
• Direct Expert Involvement: Real-time participation from our meteorologists to facilitate drills, answer technical questions, and refine your team’s decision-making logic.
• Response Protocol Calibration: Collaborative feedback to help align your operational thresholds with the reality of evolving weather patterns.

Exception-Based Alerts: Gain the benefit of expert oversight without the need for a scheduled daily briefing. This standalone service provides high-priority reports triggered only when weather conditions cross your specific operational thresholds, including:

• Prolonged Climate Events: Alerts for extended heat waves or cold spells that threaten infrastructure, personnel safety, or energy demand.
• Severe & Fire Risk: Immediate notification of thunderstorms, tornadoes, lightning, and wildfire conditions conducive to ignition and spread.
• Tropical & Wind Intelligence: Real-time tracking of tropical systems and high-wind gusts that exceed your predefined safety criteria.
• Precipitation Thresholds: Targeted alerts for conditions you define such as rain, snow, ice accumulation, heat waves, cold spells and others — essential for managing drainage capacity, site access, and load-bearing limits.

Verification for Damage Assessments: Gain a professional “source of truth” for critical reporting. Our meteorologists perform forensic analysis to correlate infrastructure damage with specific meteorological events, providing the documented evidence needed for insurance claims and internal audits, including:

• Event Attribution: Professional determination of which specific storm cell or weather event likely caused observed damage to your assets.
• Impact Documentation: Detailed reporting on the exact conditions (wind speed, hail size, or surge height) present at your site during the window of impact.
• Infrastructure Analysis: Expert correlation between atmospheric conditions and their direct effects on your physical infrastructure or operational capacity.

24/7/365 Support: Gain a direct line to our global meteorological team for real-time “confidence checks” whenever weather threatens your operations. With offices positioned across five major global hubs, we provide around-the-clock clarity and immediate situational awareness, including:

• Instant Phone Consultations: Direct access to a meteorologist who is already familiar with your specific territory and operational thresholds for immediate decision support.
• Rapid Email Response: Guaranteed email guidance within two hours, providing a written “second opinion” to validate your high-stakes operational choices.
• Global Situational Awareness: Leverage our “follow-the-sun” model, providing an expert that is always awake and monitoring the conditions affecting your domestic or international assets.

Unlike consumer weather apps that provide general data, professional weather forecasting services offer decision-grade intelligence tailored to specific operational needs.

At The Weather Company, this means combining AI-driven data with human expertise to help organizations manage risk, enhance safety, and optimize costs in an increasingly volatile climate.

We offer three primary engagement models designed to fit your operational workflows:

• Embedded Meteorology Support: Onsite meteorologists to provide ongoing, real-time weather consultation and insights on impactful weather.
• Scheduled Services: Regular, cadence-based briefings that provide a consistent pulse on weather for long-term planning.
• Ad Hoc Services: On-demand, unscheduled support from our experts during high-impact events like hurricanes, severe storms, or winter outbreaks.

HOTL is our unique model where 100+ professional meteorologists collaborate directly with our AI-generated forecast data.

While AI handles massive data processing at scale, our experts provide the “final mile” of judgment _ refining, validating, and interpreting the data. This enables your team to receive actionable insights that a purely automated system might miss.

Yes. Our global team of meteorologists provides around-the-clock coverage across all time zones and geographies. With offices located in five major cities worldwide (Atlanta, GA, Andover, MA, Birmingham, UK, Seoul, KR, Tokyo, JP), we provide you with expert-validated intelligence and on-call support whenever and wherever weather threatens your operations.

Yes. Many leading businesses choose The Weather Company for Weather Data APIs that fit their specific business needs. The Weather Company Weather Data APIs include real-time and historical weather data to support decisions across industries.

Powered by advanced weather intelligence systems, our Weather Data APIs help your business to make safer, data-driven decisions and optimize operations. View API packages and pricing.

The Weather Company is the world’s most accurate forecaster,⁵ combining AI innovation, proprietary technologies, and human expertise to deliver precise weather intelligence for people and businesses worldwide.

We meet your team where and how they work. Forecasts and briefings can be scheduled and delivered via our secure web dashboard, automated email alerts, or direct consultation with our meteorologists. During “ad hoc” severe events, you have a direct line to our experts to ask the specific “what if?” questions that help you execute your response plan.

Yes. Beyond real-time guidance, our services include seasonal outlooks and historical analysis. By understanding how past weather patterns affected your bottom line, our experts help you build more resilient operational strategies —  for the weeks, months and years ahead.

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