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The Real Cloud Wars: The $6 Billion Battle Over The Future Of Weather Forecasting

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"N asty." That is the professional opinion of Joel Myers, the CEO of AccuWeather, about the weather on Mother’s Day in New York City, as rain pelts the pavement nonstop and temperatures drop into the 40s. From the corner of 50th Street and 3rd Avenue, he shoots a text to company headquarters in State College, Pennsylvania, suggesting employees use the word in the day’s New York forecast. “I’m always looking for ways to make the information we communicate better and more accurate,” he says. Wiry and fit at 79 with a full head of dyed brown hair, Myers runs America’s oldest independent private weather forecasting company. He founded it in 1962 while studying for his master’s in meteorology at Penn State. His first client, a local gas company, paid him $150 to forecast three months of winter weather so it could plan for home heating demand. Today conservative estimates of AccuWeather’s annual revenues exceed $100 million. Customers include hundreds of TV and radio stations across the coun

Leadership Education Daily Cover The Real Cloud Wars: The $6 Billion Battle Over The Future Of Weather Forecasting jamel toppin for forbes By Susan Adams , Former Staff. I’m a senior editor in charge of Forbes’ education coverage. Jun 24, 2019, 06:00am EDT This story appears in the June 30, 2019 issue of Forbes Magazine. Subscribe "N asty." That is the professional opinion of Joel Myers, the CEO of AccuWeather , about the weather on Mother’s Day in New York City, as rain pelts the pavement nonstop and temperatures drop into the 40s. From the corner of 50th Street and 3rd Avenue, he shoots a te

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