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Why weather now means business and how it affects you

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Early this year, when information and technology behemoth IBM announced that its Weather Company had created a powerful new global weather forecasting system, it evoked hope and fear at the same time. The company claimed that its new Global High-Resolution Atmospheric Fore-casting System, or GRAF, would provide the “most accurate local weather forecasts ever seen worldwide” and could predict something as small as thunderstorms or as fickle as tropical cyclones that keep meteorologists on their toes till making the landfall. Every day at Weather Co’s office in Brookhaven, in the US state of Georgia, some 600 meteorologists, data analysts and a supercomputer analyse weather-related information gathered by governments and intergovernmental agencies through their weather stations, sophisticated radars, aeroplanes and spy satellites, and feed those into GRAF. To ensure that the forecasts reflect localised and near-real-time atmospheric, land and oceanic conditions, the team also harnesses d

Why weather now means business and how it affects you हिंदी മലയാളം Print Edition Support Us Subscribe Health Agriculture Water Waste Climate Air Africa Data Centre Video Gallery Food Bookshop Young Environmentalist Newsletters Subscribe Health Agriculture Water Waste Climate Air Africa Data Centre Video Gallery Food Bookshop Young Environmentalist Newsletters Climate Change Why weather now means business and how it affects you The first part in a series that looks into how private players now want to monetise meteorological data that is a public resource Akshit Sangomla Published on : 15 Oct 2

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